Traumatic Epiglottitis following a Blind Insertion of the Hand during Convulsion

Traditionally, it has been recommended that first-responders should place chopsticks or their hand in a child's mouth to prevent the child from biting their tongue during convulsion. The practice persists locally in parts of Japan and can cause adverse events. We report a traumatic epiglottitis...

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Autor principal: Yokoyama, Koji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6136562/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30245901
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/8398502
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description Traditionally, it has been recommended that first-responders should place chopsticks or their hand in a child's mouth to prevent the child from biting their tongue during convulsion. The practice persists locally in parts of Japan and can cause adverse events. We report a traumatic epiglottitis following the thrusting of a guardians' hand into a 13-month-old girl's mouth to prevent her from biting her tongue.
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spelling pubmed-61365622018-09-23 Traumatic Epiglottitis following a Blind Insertion of the Hand during Convulsion Yokoyama, Koji Case Rep Pediatr Case Report Traditionally, it has been recommended that first-responders should place chopsticks or their hand in a child's mouth to prevent the child from biting their tongue during convulsion. The practice persists locally in parts of Japan and can cause adverse events. We report a traumatic epiglottitis following the thrusting of a guardians' hand into a 13-month-old girl's mouth to prevent her from biting her tongue. Hindawi 2018-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6136562/ /pubmed/30245901 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/8398502 Text en Copyright © 2018 Koji Yokoyama. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Traumatic Epiglottitis following a Blind Insertion of the Hand during Convulsion
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6136562/
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