Document
Metadata
Title
CHOKING IN A PSYCHIATRIC PATIENT - A CASE REPORT
Authors
Biradar, Gururaj
Description
Choking is one of the important types of asphyxia deaths. The incidences of which are not uncommon. The choking in children could be due toys, coins, marbles, nuts and any other small hard object or even sometimes due to stuffed in plastic bags whereas in adults most of the times food bolus or hard parts of food like bone pieces are responsible. It is mostly accidental in nature. It can cause coughing or sometimes airway obstruction leading to death. We present a case wherein a mentally ill person accidentally choked to death after consumption of food.
KEYWORDS: Choking; Asphyxial deaths; Food bolus; Airway obstruction.
Source
International Journal of Clinical and Biomedical Research; Volume 1, Issue 4; October 2015; 70-72
Publisher
Sumathi Publications
Rights
Copyright (c) 2015 Gururaj Biradar, Vinayaka Prasanna, Shankar M Bakkannavar, Pavanchand Shetty, G Pradeep Kumar
Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Date
2015-10-28
Format
application/pdf
Language
eng