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How much more exciting can it get than saving a person’s life? Picture yourself walking into an emergency room and seeing a young child gasping for air and unable to breathe. This young patient was eating a big candy and was given a fright by a friend, resulting in the candy being suddenly lodged in the child’s throat. I was actually on call once when this very scenario occurred and I was called immediately to the emergency room. Luckily enough, I was not far from the emergency room and was taking a short break in between surgeries; I was able to rush to the situation in no time.

Once I assessed the problem and saw how potentially grave this situation could be, I rushed the patient to the operating room. Due to the position of the candy in the throat, the patient was very fortunate that complete obstruction of the airway did not occur; in other words I had enough time to remove the candy in a more controlled environment and with the appropriate instrumentation. With the help of an anesthesiologist, a careful anesthetic was carried out. Using a steel rigid instrument (laryngoscope) and with a combination of a vacuum device and grasping forceps, the candy was successfully removed. The child woke up from the anesthetic without complication and the parents as well as all health-care parties involved in the care of this patient were ecstatic. Once I had some free time, I ventured back to the emergency room so that I could give feedback to the staff there, and thanked them for their part in the care, and positive outcome, of our mutual patient.