This Article  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

KARL GRUPPE, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1939;29(1):161-162.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

In the course of extraction of an open safety pin from the esophagus or tracheobronchial tree by the point-sheathed method, an arrest of progress is apt to occur as the head of the pin, being outside the endoscope, meets the cricopharyngeal pinchcock or the larynx, as the case may be. This is particularly apt to occur in the case of a small child, with a large pin or with a widely opened pin.

I am submitting herewith a method of applying traction to the head of the pin, a method which I believe has some advantages over the double forceps application technic, in that the connection is entirely flexible and hence does not interfere with the point-sheathing maneuver.

The method consists of clipping to the head ring of the pin a small metal clip to the center of which has been fastened a piece of braided silk or fishline (fig., . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
UTICA, N. Y.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?