The boy that coughed up a sweet corn

Abstract

there is an increasing demand for emergency health care and our population is older. The effect of this would be to lessen the strength of our findings.Our approach seems to largely work for us. Clearly, local adaptation is necessary for different hospitals. Very few hospitals are of our size and have the range of our services on site. Whether the benefits that we have identified are transferable to smaller hospitals is not clear. CONCLUSIONCombining all emergency care into one place has significant advantages in reducing admissions to hospital and the length of stay of admitted patients. It may be associated with a decrease in formal complaints and clinical incidents, but this system places a hospital at a financial disadvantage. The system needs testing in a range of settings to establish whether this is truly externally valid.

The sweet lung: Chewing gummi bear aspiration

“…Although jellies may also be aspirated in the lungs of small children consuming sweets,[5] there are no reports describing characteristics of gummy or jelly sweets FBA in the literature. Today, Haribo0 is the biggest manufacturer of gummy and jelly sweets in the world, with its products mainly consisting of gummi bears, other jelly sweets and liquorice.…”

Dangers of eating vegetables: Contralateral perfusion deficit with an inhaled foreign body

“…1 Inhalation of a piece of corn has been previously reported in the litera-ture; however, in that case the child spontaneously coughed up the foreign body and recovered. 2 We hypothesise that during the patients coughing fit, the corn kernel moved from the right main bronchi to the left. This resulted in obstruction to ventilation in the left lung and poor perfusion of the right lung due to hypoxic vasoconstriction.…”