Image of the magnet lodged inside the child
He came around 8 am, left around 9 am. The ENT professor came straight to the hospital with the specially fabricated, small, elongated rectangular magnet (reported to be 3 mm in length) prepared by Kanrar to facilitate the removal of the impacted foreign body.
“Since the magnet the doctor got was not very powerful I instead got him a block of powerful magnet from where I fabricated three pieces according to his description. Even as he wanted to pay me, I refused as his motive was to save a child,” said Prabhakar Kanrar. I am quite in awe that there are doctors who still go all the way out to save patients,” said Kanrar.
The procedure was done on a six-year-old child who had swallowed a toy magnet two days ago. The challenging intervention prompted doctors at the state-run hospital to think out of the box to devise the innovative retrieval technique. Since the foreign body needed retrieval at the earliest, the treating doctors were even referring the child to the cardiothoracic department for an open surgery. That is when a doctor friend of ENT Professor Diptanshu Mukhopadhyay suggested an attempt using a magnet at the tip of the device for extracting the object. “The doctor called me after completing the procedure saying that the innovation has worked.
Kolkata: Doctors at Medical College Hospital Kolkata (MCHK) deployed an innovative magnet-assisted retrieval of an impacted airway foreign body on Thursday.