Lingual ischemia following tongue entrapment in a glass bottle.
A 10-year-old, previously healthy female presented to the emergency department via emergency medical service transport, with her tongue tightly entrapped inside a glass bottle (9 oz, Yoohoo brand of chocolate drink). The tongue was massively edematous and ecchymotic due to impaired venous return from constriction by the neck of the bottle. After repeated attempts at mechanically reducing the tongue out of the bottle, a professional glazier was contacted, who was able to remove the bottle in the operating room with a steel glass cutter. Needle evacuation of a small hematoma was then performed to decrease the pressure ischemia to the tongue, which began to improve quickly.
Guha
S J
SJ
Department of Surgery, Johnston Memorial Hospital, Smithfield, North Carolina, USA.
Catz
N D
ND
D002648:Child; D004630:Emergencies; D005260:Female; D005898:Glass; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia / Q000209:etiology*; D013391:Sucking Behavior; D014059:Tongue / Q000098:blood supply*