title: The Extraordinary Case of the Hungry Woman: Large Foreign Body Ingestion With Respiratory Arrest.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
authors.forename: Lindsay L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Warner
authors.forename: Dale C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Ekbom
authors.forename: Paul A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Warner
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; D004435:Eating; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications; D009960:Oropharynx; D053120:Respiratory Aspiration