The Extraordinary Case of the Hungry Woman: Large Foreign Body Ingestion With Respiratory Arrest

Repeated ingestion of small objects has been previously reported in the psychiatric literature. We recently had a patient with repeated intentional foreign body ingestion syndrome who developed complete airway obstruction and cardiac arrest after ingesting a computer mouse tracking ball. We use our case to suggest a pathway that can be used for similar emergent airway problems.
Source: A&A Case Reports - Category: Anesthesiology Tags: Case Reports: Case Report Source Type: research