Management of aspirated tooth in an adult head injury patient: Report of two cases

Aspiration of foreign bodies is common in a pediatric age group but adults can also be at risk. We describe management of two adult trauma victims with aspirated tooth. In the first case, foreign body went missing for sometime by intensive care physician and detected by radiologist while it was obvi...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Niraj, Goyal, Himanshu, Bindra, Ashish, Goyal, Keshav
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4024690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24843346
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1658-354X.130747
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description Aspiration of foreign bodies is common in a pediatric age group but adults can also be at risk. We describe management of two adult trauma victims with aspirated tooth. In the first case, foreign body went missing for sometime by intensive care physician and detected by radiologist while it was obvious in the second case. Both the patients were managed with the help of rigid bronchoscopy. Tooth should be removed as soon as possible or it may result in complete airway obstruction or lung collapse.
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spelling pubmed-40246902014-05-19 Management of aspirated tooth in an adult head injury patient: Report of two cases Kumar, Niraj Goyal, Himanshu Bindra, Ashish Goyal, Keshav Saudi J Anaesth Case Report Aspiration of foreign bodies is common in a pediatric age group but adults can also be at risk. We describe management of two adult trauma victims with aspirated tooth. In the first case, foreign body went missing for sometime by intensive care physician and detected by radiologist while it was obvious in the second case. Both the patients were managed with the help of rigid bronchoscopy. Tooth should be removed as soon as possible or it may result in complete airway obstruction or lung collapse. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4024690/ /pubmed/24843346 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1658-354X.130747 Text en Copyright: © Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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