Abstract
Perianaesthetic airway foreign bodies in small animals are rare, with reports limited to broken endotracheal tubes that have been aspirated during recovery from anaesthesia ( Nutt et al., 2014 ; Niimura del Barrio et al., 2015 ). In humans, some anaesthesia-related airway foreign bodies, such as broken pieces from anaesthetic equipment (e.g. a piece of intubation stylet, a washer from a suction catheter, a part of a Cole tracheal tube and a rivet from a laryngoscope blade), have occurred during endotracheal intubation ( Jain et al., 2012 ). This letter describes an iatrogenic endobronchial foreign body occurring inadvertently during attempted endotracheal intubation.