ENT DEVICE

Medical College Hospital Kolkata professor gets patent for developing ENT device

ENT doctors often come across patients, mostly children, with foreign objects stuck in their airway or food passage after accidental swallowing. Most of these objects like coins, whistles can be extracted with the conventional forceps. But these forceps cannot grasp round and slippery objects like marbles. As a result such objects are generally pushed down to the abdomen so that it passes down to the gut and comes out with stool. If this does not happen doctors remove it by cutting open the abdomen.