Warner Lindsay L, Ekbom Dale C, Warner Paul A
From the Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
A A Case Rep. 2017 Mar 15;8(6):147-149. doi: 10.1213/XAA.0000000000000450.
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.
