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Living on the edge of the post-nasal space: the inhaled foreign body

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2006

G. L. Ross ,
N. B. Steventon ,
D. K. Pinder  and
M. W. M. Bridger
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Abstract

We present a previously undescribed event where an inhaled foreign body was propelled into the post-nasal space by the Heimlich manoeuvre. We present figures showing a drop in the mortality following inhaled foreign bodies since the introduction of the Heimlich manoeuvre.

Keywords

Foreign bodies
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 114 , Issue 1 , January 2000 , pp. 56 - 57
Copyright
Royal Society of Medicine Press Limited 2000

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