Foreign-body airway obstruction is a clinical emergency that may be life threatening. Nurses should be confident to assess the severity of airway obstruction, deliver interventions to relieve that ...

Other causes of airway obstruction in children – including laryngitis and epiglottitis – present with similar symptoms. The presence of a foreign body should be suspected if the symptoms have a sudden ...

Subglottic airway foreign body in an 18-month-old girl Haoxiang Gu , Angela Vinturache , Guodong Ding CMAJ Oct 2022, 194 (39) E1351; DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.220544 ...

Foreign body aspiration (FBA) is a potentially life-threatening event. The clinical presentation of a unilateral bronchial foreign body may be subtle, requiring careful clinical assessment and a ...

Choking on a foreign object is an example of an acute airway obstruction. Chronic airway obstructions occur two ways: by blockages that take a long time to develop or by blockages that last for a ...

Foreign objects. Inhaling an object that blocks the airway is the fourth leading cause of unintentional death. This is more likely to happen in children, who have smaller airways, and people who ...

A 14-year-old went to the emergency room after accidentally swallowing a quarter, which became lodged in his airway The New England Journal of Medicine A California teen underwent an emergency ...

A one-and-a-half-year-old toddler was rushed to a civil defense center in the Balqa Governorate Sunday evening after a stone got lodged in his airway, and swift first-aid was conducted to save his ...

Foreign body removal. Bronchoscopy is the preferred interventional pulmonology procedure to remove inhaled foreign objects that are lodged in an airway.

A Ga East Municipal Pathologist has given the cause of death of Shadrach Arloo as asphyxiation and obstruction of airway by a foreign body. Shadrach Arloo, 32, had died at the West Hills mall ...