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In the course of extraction of an open safety pin from the esophagus or tracheobronchial tree by the point-sheathed method, an arrest of progress is apt to occur as the head of the pin, being outside the endoscope, meets the cricopharyngeal pinchcock or the larynx, as the case may be. This is particularly apt to occur in the case of a small child, with a large pin or with a widely opened pin.
I am submitting herewith a method of applying traction to the head of the pin, a method which I believe has some advantages over the double forceps application technic, in that the connection is entirely flexible and hence does not interfere with the point-sheathing maneuver.
The method consists of clipping to the head ring of the pin a small metal clip to the center of which has been fastened a piece of braided silk or fishline (fig.,