Banjul,
Dec. 3rd - A joint team of Cubans and Gambians formed by anesthetists,
pediatricians and ENT enjoy today the pleasant taste of having recovered an
11-month-old baby who arrived at the emergency department of the Central
Hospital of this capital with acute respiratory failure with danger to life.
The
little girl had aspirated a foreign body (a peanut bean) in the lower trachea
airway, so it was decided to take it to the operating room for its extraction
(bronchoscopy), but it was impossible to pipe the peripheral vein to administer
bronchodilators, anti-inflammatories, antibiotics, anesthetics and fluids.
The
novelty of the case is that general anesthesia had to be administered
intra-bony in the left tibia, procedure that had never been done before in The
Gambia. The baby was discharged on December 1st completely recovered and able to
enjoy a new year thanks to the professional solidarity of Cubans and Gambians.
