Elderly and Children Are Not The Only Victims of Foreign Body Airway Obstruction in Italy (A National Media-Based Survey)
Choking is a relevant public health problem. Data in medical literature are scarce and fatal events are dramatically under-reported.The aim of this manuscript is to give a real estimation of this problem and to raise awareness about this topic.Materials and methods. All deaths caused by choking repo...
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Federal Research and Clinical Center of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology, Moscow, Russia
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| author | G Landoni T. Scquizzato A. G. Yavorovskiy A. Zangrillo S. Silvetti |
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| description | Choking is a relevant public health problem. Data in medical literature are scarce and fatal events are dramatically under-reported.The aim of this manuscript is to give a real estimation of this problem and to raise awareness about this topic.Materials and methods. All deaths caused by choking reported by Italian Mass Media over a two years period were collected. Suspected sudden infant death syndrome was an exclusion criteria.Results. 76 deaths due to foreign body airway obstruction were identified, 51% during 2018 and 49% in 2019, without identifiable time clusters. Choking affected every age, including pre-scholar children (25%), children 6 to 18 years old (3%), adults (38%), and elderly patients (34%). Witnessed cases were 61 (80%) but in almost half 26 cases (42%) the fatal event occurred before or without first aid maneuvers being performed.Conclusion. On the Italian territory, during a 2 years period, three cases per month of fatal choking due to foreign-body airway obstruction occurred, many of them in adult patients (38%). Italian people seem not to be educated to provide first aid in these settings. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b22818de1ba1436baf4cfc8f4c7d7c3f2025-03-02T11:29:38ZengFederal Research and Clinical Center of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology, Moscow, RussiaОбщая реаниматология1813-97792411-71102021-02-0117141510.15360/1813-9779-2021-1-4-151775Elderly and Children Are Not The Only Victims of Foreign Body Airway Obstruction in Italy (A National Media-Based Survey)G Landoni0T. Scquizzato1A. G. Yavorovskiy2A. Zangrillo3S. Silvetti4IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute; San Raffaele HospitalIRCCS San Raffaele Scientific InstituteI. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Ministry of Health of RussiaIRCCS San Raffaele Scientific InstituteNeonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care UnitChoking is a relevant public health problem. Data in medical literature are scarce and fatal events are dramatically under-reported.The aim of this manuscript is to give a real estimation of this problem and to raise awareness about this topic.Materials and methods. All deaths caused by choking reported by Italian Mass Media over a two years period were collected. Suspected sudden infant death syndrome was an exclusion criteria.Results. 76 deaths due to foreign body airway obstruction were identified, 51% during 2018 and 49% in 2019, without identifiable time clusters. Choking affected every age, including pre-scholar children (25%), children 6 to 18 years old (3%), adults (38%), and elderly patients (34%). Witnessed cases were 61 (80%) but in almost half 26 cases (42%) the fatal event occurred before or without first aid maneuvers being performed.Conclusion. On the Italian territory, during a 2 years period, three cases per month of fatal choking due to foreign-body airway obstruction occurred, many of them in adult patients (38%). Italian people seem not to be educated to provide first aid in these settings.https://www.reanimatology.com/rmt/article/view/2010airwaychokingemergencyforeign-bodyresuscitation |
| spellingShingle | G Landoni T. Scquizzato A. G. Yavorovskiy A. Zangrillo S. Silvetti Elderly and Children Are Not The Only Victims of Foreign Body Airway Obstruction in Italy (A National Media-Based Survey) Общая реаниматология airway choking emergency foreign-body resuscitation |
| title | Elderly and Children Are Not The Only Victims of Foreign Body Airway Obstruction in Italy (A National Media-Based Survey) |
| title_full | Elderly and Children Are Not The Only Victims of Foreign Body Airway Obstruction in Italy (A National Media-Based Survey) |
| title_fullStr | Elderly and Children Are Not The Only Victims of Foreign Body Airway Obstruction in Italy (A National Media-Based Survey) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Elderly and Children Are Not The Only Victims of Foreign Body Airway Obstruction in Italy (A National Media-Based Survey) |
| title_short | Elderly and Children Are Not The Only Victims of Foreign Body Airway Obstruction in Italy (A National Media-Based Survey) |
| title_sort | elderly and children are not the only victims of foreign body airway obstruction in italy a national media based survey |
| topic | airway choking emergency foreign-body resuscitation |
| url | https://www.reanimatology.com/rmt/article/view/2010 |
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