Foreign Body Swallows in Pediatrics

Bahaa Mohammed Refaie

Status

Completed

Conditions

Foreign Body in Oropharynx

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05253027

2023

Details and patient eligibility

About

Foreign Body Ingestion (FBI) is a common clinical emergency in children. Most FBs smoothly pass through the digestive tract without complications; nevertheless, some FBs can cause severe morbidity and mortality. The current work aimed at evaluating how FBI can cause respiratory distress and stridor as well as their severity according to age, gender, lodgment site, and type of the object. Factors influencing morbidity and mortality among studied patients will be deliberated as well.

Full description

Background: Foreign Body Ingestion (FBI) is a common clinical emergency in children. Most FBs smoothly pass through the digestive tract without complications; nevertheless, some FBs can cause severe morbidity and mortality. The current work aimed at evaluating how the FBI can cause respiratory distress and stridor as well as their severity according to age, gender, lodgment site, and type of the object. Factors influencing morbidity and mortality among studied patients will be deliberated as well.

Methods: It is a hospital-based descriptive study where all children between birth and 16 years of age who were admitted from January 1 st, 2018 to December, 31th 2021 for FBs removal were analyzed. All cases were subjected to complete history taking, physical, radiological, and bronchoscopic examination.

Enrollment

14 patients

Sex

All

Ages

1 day to 16 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria