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12393114

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-10-23
pubmed:abstractText
The practice of oral tissue piercing, until recently, has been limited mainly to various native tribes in Africa. However, in recent years, body piercing (including oral tissue piercing), has become increasingly popular in the United States and Europe. We present a case of an obstetric patient who presented for emergency postpartum surgery with fixated tongue jewelry in situ, which resulted in trauma to the tongue and difficult airway management. The difficult airway management consisted of tongue bleeding at the time of laryngoscopy and tongue edema at extubation. We consider these two events to be near misses of "cannot intubate" and "cannot ventilate" situations, respectively. Because the popularity of body piercing is increasing in our society, it is reasonable to expect that the incidence of oral jewelry interference with airway management will also increase. Based on this experience, we advise laboring patients with oral jewelry to remove the hardware before receiving anesthesia for safety reasons.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0952-8180
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
14
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
447-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Tongue piercing and obstetric anesthesia: is there cause for concern?
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Anesthesiology University of California, San Diego Medical Center, 402 Dickinson Street, San Diego, CA 92103, USA. kkuczkowski@ucsd.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports