Hair dye ingestion is a rare cause of toxicity in Pakistan. We are presenting the case report of a 55 year old male who presented with accidental hair dye ingestion and developed laryngeal oedema requiring emergent tracheostomy. He had also developed aspiration pneumonitis and chemical oesophagitis. However, the most alarming manifestation was rhabdomyolysis. Hair dye toxicity can be fatal if n...

Regurgitation and inhalation of acid gastric content, with resultant chemical pneumonitis, remains a common cause of death during anaesthesia. The effects of intravenous glycopyrrolate 0.3 mg on the lower oesophageal sphincter tone was studied in normal human subjects. Glycopyrrolate decreased lower oesophageal sphincter pressure by 0.88 kPa (p less than 0.005). This finding is of clinical impo...

C l i n M e d International Library Citation: Welter S, Cheufou D, Ehmann T, Kampe S, Scharmann P (2014) Endotracheal Repair of an Iatrogenic Tracheal Laceration in A 83-Year-Old Critically Ill Woman with Aspiration Pneumonitis and Sepsis .Int J Anesthetic Anesthesiol 1:015. doi.org/10.23937/23774630/1/3/1015 Received: November 01, 2014: Accepted: November 20, 2014: Published: November 24, 2014...

Compared with community-dwelling persons, residents in long-term care facilities have more functional disabilities and underlying medical illnesses and are at increased risk of acquiring infectious diseases. Pneumonia is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in this group. Risk factors include unwitnessed aspiration, sedative medication, and comorbidity. Recognition may be delayed becaus...

OBJECTIVES Foreign body aspiration into the lower airway in adults is uncommon. We designed this study to investigate the clinical presentations, precipitating factors, management choice, and complications of foreign body aspiration in Chinese adults. PATIENTS AND METHODS We analyzed 43 consecutive adult patients with foreign body aspiration between February 1980 and December 1995 from the me...

The fungicide blasticidin S has been used against a rice blast disease. Reports on its human toxicity are extremely limited, and irritation to GI tract, eye and skin are the presenting symptoms in most afflicted cases. Fatalities resulting from profuse intestinal fluid loss with subsequent hypotension have also been recorded. In an attempt to delineate the clinical pictures of blasticidin S poi...

Six patients presenting with initially obscure pulmonary fibrosis are described. Reasons are given for attributing the condition to chronic aspiration pneumonitis from gastro-oesophageal reflux in association with hiatus hernia, supported by lung histology in three cases. Study of a further series of 143 cases of hiatus hernia suggests a 4% incidence of this insidious complication in addition t...

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