Upper airway obstruction in an adolescent: Can airway foreign bodies be missed without self-reporting?
Adolescent
Airway foreign body
Chewing gum
Delayed diagnosis
Misdiagnosis
Journal
Respiratory medicine case reports
ISSN: 2213-0071
Titre abrégé: Respir Med Case Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101604463
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
received:
29
09
2019
revised:
13
02
2020
accepted:
20
02
2020
entrez:
18
3
2020
pubmed:
18
3
2020
medline:
18
3
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Upper airway obstruction due to foreign body aspiration is rare in adolescents. Diagnosis of the same is difficult, and incorrect, delay of treatment is common in patients with no aspiration history. Herein, we describe the case of a 15-year-old boy who presented with upper airway obstruction because of swallowing chewing gum 4 days before presentation. The patient was initially misdiagnosed and was scheduled for an emergency tracheotomy. However, this unnecessary surgical procedure was narrowly avoided because his symptoms resolved after he expelled the chewing gum from his airway. Despite being questioned several times about aspiration of any foreign bodies, he did not self-report the incident because he did not suspect that his symptoms were due to swallowing of the chewing gum.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32181126
doi: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2020.101029
pii: S2213-0071(19)30288-6
pii: 101029
pmc: PMC7063174
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Langues
eng
Pagination
101029Informations de copyright
© 2020 The Authors.
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