Down the Wrong Pipe: Foreign Body Ingestions and Aspirations

We have all had the experience of something going “down the wrong pipe” or having the wrong thing down the right pipe.  Any way you slice it, things end up in the GI tract or bronchial tree that shouldn’t be there.  Try not to get choked up as we cover how to figure out what went where and, more importantly, what to do about it

References

A review of GI foreign bodies and their managment

Button battery in the esophagus at a critical access hospital? Go for the two H’s: helicopter and honey

A possible use of CT for aspirated foreign bodies