Assault by Battery

Proctor, Munro H.

doi:10.1056/nejm198702263160918

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“…The type of FB also varies from country to country. [6][7][8][9][10][11] The pattern must also be changing from time to time as the readily available things also change from time to time and from place to place. Such observations are not published and perhaps not studied.…”

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“…People with dementia and those having psychiatric ailments are most likely to ingest a FB intentionally; however, patients with bulimia may inadvertently swallow objects while trying to induce vomiting. [5,6] Some people may have history of recurrent FB ingestion (psychiatric population) while others may ingest it for secondary gains (incarcerated criminals and drug traffickers "body packers"). In the normal population, dementic patients, incarcerated criminals, and people with bulimia may ingest FBs.…”

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“…The most commonly seen upper gastrointestinal tract (UGIT) FB in US in adults is meat bolus and bone chips, and in children, the same includes coins, toys, magnets, and batteries. [6] In some European countries, the commonly ingested FBs include Fishbone, bones, and dentures; in China, it is food bolus, fish bones, dental prostheses, and bones that are commonly ingested, while as in the Middle East, the same may include coins, meat boluses, and bones. [7][8][9] In Africa and the Indian subcontinent, coins, meat boluses, and dentures are the most commonly expected FBs that could be ingested.…”

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Unique Pattern of True Foreign-Body Ingestion in the Valley of Kashmir; Sharp Foreign Bodies Outnumbering the Blunt Ones

Shah

Kadla

Shah

et al. 2019

Journal of Digestive Endoscopy

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Background and Aims: Foreign-body ingestion is a common phenomenon, especially in children. In normal adults, foreign-body ingestion is usually accidental and mostly ingestion occurs with food and impaction is a result of structural abnormalities of the upper gastrointestinal tract (UGIT). However, accidental ingestion of nonfood products is unusual; especially ingestion of pins (scarf or safety pins) and needles is unknown. We come across ingestion of these unusual/sharp foreign bodies routinely from the past few years. The aim of this study was to observe, over a period of 1 year, the spectrum of nonfood or true foreign-body ingestion in our community and to see the impact of an early endoscopy on outcome or retrieval of the ingested objects. Materials and Methods: In a prospective observational study, we studied the profile of foreign-body ingestion in normal individuals of all ages and both sexes, excluding the individuals with any structural abnormalities of the gut and the people with psychiatric ailment. Results: Of total 51 patients with foreign-body ingestion, 42 (82%) were 20 or <20 years of age with females constituting 86.3% of the total and males constituting only 13.7%. Foreign bodies ingested included 38 pins (74.5%), seven coins (13.7%), four needles (7.8%), and one denture and a nail (2%) each. Overall 26 (51%) foreign bodies were seen in UGIT (within reach of retrieval) at the time of endoscopy and all of them were retrieved. Nineteen (37.3%) patients reported within 6 h of ingestion, and majority of them (16 = 84.2%) had foreign bodies within UGIT and all of them were removed. Those patients (n = 32; 62.7%) who reported beyond 6 h, only 10 (31.25%) had foreign bodies in UGIT as a result of which the success rate of removal in these patients was only 32%. Conclusion: Most of our patients were young females and the common foreign bodies ingested were sharp including scarf pins followed by coins and needles. The success rate of retrieval was high in those who reported within 6 h of ingestion of foreign body. The rate of retrieval was 100% if foreign body was found on esophagogastroduodenoscopy. Hence, we recommend an early endoscopy in these patients and some alternative to use of scarf pins. AbstractThis is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.

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