Swallowed Foreign Bodies

PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast - A podcast by Brad Sobolewski

Kids eat stuff they’re not supposed to. Most of the time foreign bodies pass harmlessly through the GI tract. Occasionally they will get stuck. It is your job to figure out who has an impacted foreign body, and how to diagnose and manage it. Check out more Pediatric Emergency Medicine content at PEMBlog.com Follow me on Twitter @PEMTweets