Çocuklarda Fatal Yabancı Cisim Aspirasyonları

Abstract

…ZET SUMMARYAs a very serious reason of accidental deaths in childhood, we have aimed to investigate deaths due to foreign body aspiration (FBA), since its incidence has not decreased despite advances in the techniques and instruments for its emergency treatment.We retrospectively reviewed the records of forensic cases due to FBA examined at the DiyarbakÝr Branch of the Council of Forensic Medicine between 1990 and 2003. Over this period this office investigated 8330 medicolegal deaths cases, 22 of which were children under 15 years of age due to FBA.Of the victims, 14 (63.6%) were male and 8 (36.4%) were females. The mean age of the victims was 2.2±0.6 years. There were 20 (90.9 %) children between 1 and 3 years, and two other cases at 2/12 and 5 years of ages. All fatal aspirations occurred at home. Food was the most commonly aspirated foreign body in 81.8% of the cases, nuts being the most common in 50%. Carina (54.5%) was the most common site of the foreign body in the respiratory tract.In conclusion, food asphyxiation remains a common problem particularly in children between 1 and 3 years of age in our region. These fatal accidents could be prevented by parent education and early recognition and management of the situation.Key words: Foreign body, aspiration, child, death GÜRÜÞ ‚ocukluk •aÛÝ kaza šlŸmlerinin šnemli bir bšlŸmŸ-nŸ olußturan yabancÝ cisim aspirasyonu (YCA) •ok ciddi bir kazadÝr (1-6). Aspire edilen materyaller •oÛunluk-la gÝdalar olmasÝna raÛmen evde bulunan metal, plastik,

An audit of morbidity and mortality associated with foreign body aspiration in children from a tertiary level hospital in Northern India

“…[3] Goren et al studied the mortality in children in relation to FBA and reported that 36.4% of the victims were dead on arrival, 50% on intervention, and 13.6% after complications due to delayed hypoxia. [4] We studied and compared the morbidity and mortality in the early and late diagnosis groups of paediatric FBA presenting to our hospital.…”

Nuts and seed: A natural yet dangerous foreign body

“…The nature of inhaled foreign bodies varies from country to country and is dependent on diverse cultural, social, and economic factors that include parental attitudes, eating habits, availability and types of potentially threatening objects, and prevention strategies [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10].…”

Management of tracheobronchial foreign body in children

“…Aspiration of a foreign body (FB) into the tracheobronchial tree besides being serious due to risk of causing death by asphyxia [1,2], can also chronically lead to irreversible pulmonary lesions. Most FBs are aspirated by children under 10's [3], and over 50% of them are under 3's [4].…”