In a greatest percentage of cases of foreign body aspiration, the foreign body is lodged in the right bronchus and lower lobe of the right lung due to the following anatomical features of the right bronchus. Select all that apply. Right bronchus is shorter than the left bronchus Right bronchus has a bigger diameter that the left bronchus Right bronchus is longer than the left bronchus Right bronchus descends toward the lung at a steeper angle than the left bronchus Right bronchus is more horizontal than the left bronchus
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As an ED physician, you are assessing a 2-year-old child you suspect has a foreign body aspiration (FBA) given they suddenly started coughing and choking, followed by stridor (noisy breathing) and dyspnea (labored breathing). In which main bronchus (left or right) would you 1st look using bronchoscopy to see if there was a FB lodged? option 1: left option 2: right
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