Pediatric Bronchoscopy

Bronchoscopy is a procedure of visual examination of all respiration tracts starting from throat with a device called bronchoscope. It is performed on children under general anesthesia. Bronchoscope is a device, made of an outer metal tube, an inner lens system that makes front parts visible by refracting the beams of light source with various angles. It is used in order to evaluate respiratory tract, to collect sample, to remove foreign bodies and to examine the connections between respiratory tract and esophagus. Usually, the procedure is prepared by hospitalizing the patient and preparing in the service. Outpatients should comply with the following recommendations.

Considerations before bronchoscopy

• Please contact Pediatric Surgery Outpatient clinic on the control date stated in the appointment.

• Please bring your official referral documents and X-ray results with you, if any.

• Please have a control examination done and if any additional tests requested, please take these requests to the relevant departments.

• Please show the test results to your physician in the outpatient clinic.

• Please be sure to keep your child fasting starting from the identified hour on the night before the surgery. Otherwise, please inform your physician in charge.

• If there is any medication that your child is taking continually, please make sure to use the medication in compliance with the instructions of the physician, who has given appointment before the examination. As the child will be hospitalized in Pediatric Surgery Service (Ward 34 or Ward 36) for 24 hours of follow up after the operation, please bring necessary clothes with you.

• Please bring all X-rays of the child with you.

• If your child has any additional prescriptions for other illnesses that were prescribed to be taken before and/or after receiving anesthesia, please bring these medications with you.

• Please keep the referral documents with you.

• Please keep the referral documents with you.

• If there are any changes in the condition of your child (such as fever, runny nose, cough and vomiting) since the last check up, please inform your physician of these instances.

• Please take the operating room request document, prepared by the secretariat of Pediatric Surgery Outpatient Clinic.

Considerations at Outpatient Surgery Center

• Please submit the operating room request document, the patient file, all of the X-rays and medications, if any, to the secretariat of Outpatient Surgery Center.

• Please remain in the waiting lounge until your child’s name is called.

• Please enter with your child, when called.

• Please accompany your child while she/he gets undressed and puts on special clothing.

• Please be sure that there are no accessories such as watches, necklaces, rings, earrings, etc. on your child.

• Please return to the waiting lounge, while the child is taken inside with a stretcher.

• For the surgery information please keep up with the screen which is situated in the waiting lounge.

• After being kept in the reanimation unit for a while after the surgery the child will be taken to a different hall where his/her relative can be with him/her.

Considerations at Pediatric Surgery Service

• Please carry out the admission procedures of the child.

• Please submit the patient file, X-rays and patient admission form to secretary of the service.

• Please consult with physician and nurse in the service.