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Introduction: Foreign Body Aspiration (FBA) represents a life-threatening emergency .It occurs primarily in children below 3 years. Generally, the most common aspirated FB is organic material such as nuts or beans. Sharp Foreign Bodies (FBs) are of particular concern to the attending clinician, because of their potential to perforate the air passage and cause possible complications. Here in, we...

Aspiration pneumonia is associated with significantly high morbidity and mortality rates, accompanied by high health care costs. As a result, aspiration pneumonia preventive efforts are a national priority. The development of an intervention model for the prevention of aspiration pneumonia in high-risk medical-surgical inpatients at an urban teaching hospital is described. The intervention mode...

Occupational asthma may be defined as asthma induced by exposure to an inhaled agent (or agents) in the workplace. Its presentation is sometimes dramatic. Occupational exposure to platinum salts, for example, has been known to induce asthma in over 50% of an exposed workforce. For those affected, the consequences are often devastating, while the economic effects for an industry may be no less p...

Occupational therapy is involved in disability prevention and health enhancement through the prevention of occupational dysfunction. Although many occupational dysfunction scales exist, no standard method is available for the assessment and classification of occupational dysfunction, which may include occupational imbalance, occupational deprivation, occupational alienation, and occupational ma...

This study examined the prevalence, magnitude, and predictors of aspiration–attainment gap (AAG) after school-to-work transition. We operationalized AAG as discrepancy between socioeconomic status (SES) young people’s realistic occupational aspirations that position they actually attained. As a case in point, we investigated non-college-bound students transitioning into vocational education tra...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to develop a model of basic occupational health services (BOHS) in Baoan, which could provide occupational health services (OHS) universally for workers and control occupational hazards. METHODS Steps involved in the BOHS strategy included construction of the BOHS system, capacity building, health training and education, surveillance of workplaces and the h...

Capsule endoscopy is a commonly employed technique to examine patients for gastrointestinal pathology. Pulmonary aspiration of a capsule endoscope is a rare complication of this procedure. There have been 15 well-described instances of bronchial aspiration of a capsule endoscope [1–15]. Patients who aspirate this device are generally elderly and may have risk factors for aspiration. Aspiration ...

Barium sulfate is an inert material used as a radiographic contrast medium during upper gastrointestinal contrast studies for evaluation of patients with dysphagia. Oral barium aspiration is an uncommon but wellreported complication of this procedure. While barium aspiration of small amounts may not cause any symptoms, massive barium aspiration can be life-threatening, particularly in elderly p...

Occupational asthma is the most common form of occupational lung disease in the developed world at the present time. In this review, the epidemiology, pathogenesis/mechanisms, clinical presentations, management, and prevention of occupational asthma are discussed. The population attributable risk of asthma due to occupational exposures is considerable. Current understanding of the mechanisms by...