• Pediatric emergency care · Jun 2015

    Review Case Reports

    Fatal and near-fatal grape aspiration in children.

    • Stephen Feltbower, Jon McCormack, and Ulf Theilen.
    • From the Department of Pediatric Intensive Care, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
    • Pediatr Emerg Care. 2015 Jun 1;31(6):422-4.

    AbstractChoking remains an important cause of morbidity and mortality in young children. Whole seedless grapes are a popular fruit snack to give to young children.We present 3 cases of grape aspiration, discussing the emergency care from basic life support to specialist treatment.The lessons learned will be applicable to a wide range of health professionals from frontline emergency medical service personnel to physicians and nurses working in a hospital.

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