FOOD PARTICLE

Man undergoes lung transplant after food particles lodge in lungs

​​​Doctors performed a bronchoscopy to remove the food particles from his lungs. What followed was a long hospital stay that ended in a lung transplant. When his condition did not improve even three weeks after he was first admitted in hospital, Cariappa was put on an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine the artificial lung.