Arora Amit, Arora Mona, Roffe Christine
School of Medicine, Keele University, and Staffordshire General Hospital, Stafford, UK.
Age Ageing. 2005 Sep;34(5):519-20. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afi124. Epub 2005 Jun 19.
To ask older people about loose or ill-fitting dentures is not common practice during a hospital admission. Our patient presented to the emergency department following a primary respiratory arrest. A dislodged denture was extracted from the hypo-pharynx under local anaesthesia and was presumably the cause of the respiratory arrest. Any delays in finding the missing denture and its extraction could have resulted in the patient being given a general anaesthetic and its associated complications. We suggest that asking about loose-fitting dentures should form part of comprehensive geriatric assessment.
在患者住院期间询问老年人假牙是否松动或不合适并非常见做法。我们的患者因原发性呼吸骤停被送往急诊科。在局部麻醉下从下咽取出了一枚脱落的假牙，推测这就是呼吸骤停的原因。在找到缺失假牙并将其取出方面的任何延误都可能导致患者接受全身麻醉及其相关并发症。我们建议询问假牙是否松动应成为老年综合评估的一部分。
