Unusual Case of Fatal Suffocation Due to Balloon Aspiration in a 23-Month-Old Infant

Foreign body aspiration is a serious medical emergency and the fifth leading cause of accidental injury-related fatalities. This case involves a 23-month-old infant who aspirated two latex balloons and developed cardiac arrest during balloon extraction. He was revived, but a CT scan revealed hypoxic...

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Autores principales: ALnami, Mohammed Y, Sumayli, Taher M, Hakami, Jalal A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9830963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36636550
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32398
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description Foreign body aspiration is a serious medical emergency and the fifth leading cause of accidental injury-related fatalities. This case involves a 23-month-old infant who aspirated two latex balloons and developed cardiac arrest during balloon extraction. He was revived, but a CT scan revealed hypoxic encephalopathy.
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spelling pubmed-98309632023-01-11 Unusual Case of Fatal Suffocation Due to Balloon Aspiration in a 23-Month-Old Infant ALnami, Mohammed Y Sumayli, Taher M Hakami, Jalal A Cureus Emergency Medicine Foreign body aspiration is a serious medical emergency and the fifth leading cause of accidental injury-related fatalities. This case involves a 23-month-old infant who aspirated two latex balloons and developed cardiac arrest during balloon extraction. He was revived, but a CT scan revealed hypoxic encephalopathy. Cureus 2022-12-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9830963/ /pubmed/36636550 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32398 Text en Copyright © 2022, ALnami et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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ALnami, Mohammed Y
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Unusual Case of Fatal Suffocation Due to Balloon Aspiration in a 23-Month-Old Infant
title Unusual Case of Fatal Suffocation Due to Balloon Aspiration in a 23-Month-Old Infant
title_full Unusual Case of Fatal Suffocation Due to Balloon Aspiration in a 23-Month-Old Infant
title_fullStr Unusual Case of Fatal Suffocation Due to Balloon Aspiration in a 23-Month-Old Infant
title_full_unstemmed Unusual Case of Fatal Suffocation Due to Balloon Aspiration in a 23-Month-Old Infant
title_short Unusual Case of Fatal Suffocation Due to Balloon Aspiration in a 23-Month-Old Infant
title_sort unusual case of fatal suffocation due to balloon aspiration in a 23-month-old infant
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9830963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36636550
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32398
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