الفهرس 
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Abstract
Fiberoptic bronchoscope is standard as preeminent technique for diagnostic, palliative, and curative purposes in variable pulmonary insults.
Our own objectives were, to identify the causation, technical aspects, pathophysiological impacts and complication of FOB in critically ill patients, to discover correlation between FOB outcomes and independent risk factors, ultimately to anticipate predictors of mortality in critically ill patients who underwent FOB.
This current prospective study was conducted on 52 critically ill patients who were subjected to Fiberoptic bronchoscope (FOB) for Diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.
Data collected from patients included patients’ demographic data, complete blood count, random blood sugar, liver function tests, kidney function tests, arterial blood gases and fiberoptic bronchoscope.
Patients were categorized in to two groups:
group 1: 28 critically ill patients with invasive mechanical ventilation.
group 2: 24 critically ill patients without invasive mechanical ventilation.
Fifty-two critically ill patients were included in the study.
Their mean age was 38.11±20.29in the range of (18-88 years old).
Thirty-three of included patients were males (63.5%), the remaining 19 patients were females (36.5%).