Swallowed table “Spoon”!

Swallowed table “Spoon”!

We followed this method of rescue as described by Gupta et al.,[2] however, with a slight modification. Instead of a nasogastric tube, we preferred to use the suction catheter. Moreover, ventilation in our patient was uninterrupted due to the use of flexible cathmount [Figure 1a]. The flexibility of suction catheter becomes an advantage when it comes to the process of withdrawing the oral end f...

Porcelain spoon broken and swallowed during convulsion.

To the Editor—It is common but erroneous practice among the general public to insert an object into the patient’s mouth during a convulsion to prevent him or her from biting the tongue or lips. This can actually cause more harm than good. Using a metal object, such as a spoon, may cause injury to the mouth or result in broken teeth, while objects like pencils or sticks may be bitten into pieces...

Swallowed foreign body.

An incidentally swallowed toothbrush.

Although foreign body (FB) ingestion is relatively common,ingestion of a toothbrush is rare. We are reporting on a 26-year old female who had accidentally swallowed a toothbrush, which was successfully removed via endoscopy using a polypectomy snare.

Evolution of spoon-shaped networks

We consider a regular embedded network composed by two curves, one of them closed, in a convex and smooth domain Ω. The two curves meet only at one point, forming angles of 120 degrees. The non-closed curve has a fixed end point on ∂Ω. We study the evolution by curvature of this network. We show that the maximal time of existence is finite and depends only on the area enclosed in the initial lo...