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Bronchoscopy is an endoscopic technique of visualizing the inside of the airways for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. An instrument ( bronchoscope ) is inserted into the airways, usually through the nose or mouth, or occasionally through a tracheostomy .
Once the saline is fully applied, then either suction is applied to collect the fluids, or the fluids are collected with a sterile syringe through the irrigation channel. The collection trap is then appropriately labeled and sent off for testing. [3] Recent literature for the use of endoscopic BAL in therapy uses essentially the same process.
(4000F–4563F) Therapeutic, preventive or other interventions (5005F–5250F) Follow-up or other outcomes (6005F–6150F) Patient safety (7010F–7025F) Structural measures (9001F–9007F) Non-measure claims-based reporting; CPT II codes are billed in the procedure code field, just as CPT Category I codes are billed.
The objectives of chest physiotherapy are twofold. First, to obtain outcomes equal to and more effective than bronchoscopy without the invasiveness, trauma, and risk of hypoxemia, the complications of physician involvement, and the cost that bronchoscopy requires. Second, to specifically improve ventilation to areas of local lung obstruction.
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Furthermore, blood and vomitus in the airway may prove visualization of the vocal cords difficult rendering direct and video laryngoscopy, as well as fiberoptic bronchoscopy challenging. [46] Establishment of a surgical airway is challenging in the setting of restricted neck extension (such as in a c-collar ), laryngotracheal disruption, or ...
Airway clearance therapy is treatment that uses a number of airway clearance techniques to clear the respiratory airways of mucus and other secretions. [1] Several respiratory diseases cause the normal mucociliary clearance mechanism to become impaired resulting in a build-up of mucus which obstructs breathing, and also affects the cough reflex .
In a nasotracheal procedure, an endotracheal tube is passed through the nose and vocal apparatus into the trachea. Other methods of intubation involve surgery and include the cricothyrotomy (used almost exclusively in emergency circumstances) and the tracheotomy, used primarily in situations where a prolonged need for airway support is anticipated.