﻿ Bronchoscopy: Learn the Procedure's Risks and Complications
Medical Author: Medical Editor:  Bronchoscopy facts    • There
are two types of bronchoscopes - flexible fiber optic and rigid.
• Bronchoscopy is relatively safe.   • Bronchoscopy is performed
in various settings, including same-day outpatient bronchoscopy
suite, operating room, hospital ward, and/or intensive care
unit.  What is bronchoscopy?  Bronchoscopy is a procedure during
in which an examiner uses a viewing tube to evaluate a patient's
lung and airways including the voice box and vocal cord,
trachea, and many branches of bronchi. Bronchoscopy is usually
performed by a pulmonologist or a thoracic surgeon. Although a
bronchoscope does not allow for direct viewing and inspection of
the lung tissue itself, samples of the lung tissue can be
biopsied through the bronchoscope for examination in the
laboratory.  There are two types of bronchoscopes - a flexible
fiberoptic bronchoscope and a rigid bronchoscope. Since the
1960s, the fiberoptic bro