ArticleJPGN reports2022
Epidemiology of Pediatric Foreign Body Ingestions Amidst the Coronavirus 2019 Pandemic at a Tertiary Care Children's Hospital.
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- Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on foreign body ingestion in children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study.Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology · 2025Article
- Navigating Care Amid Crisis: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Eosinophilic Esophagitis Management in Canada.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Coin-cidence? Have cashless payments reduced the incidence of upper aerodigestive foreign body insertion? A study of UK Hospital Episode Statistics.Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England · 2025Article
- Pediatric injuries and poisonings associated with detergent packets: results from the Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (CHIRPP), 2011-2023.Injury epidemiology · 2024Article
- Natural airway as an alternative to intubation for pediatric endoscopic esophageal foreign body removal: A retrospective cohort study of 326 patients.Paediatric anaesthesia · 2024Article
- Imaging approach to ingested foreign bodies in the neck.Neuroradiology · 2024Review
- Foreign body ingestion trends in children in the Daegu-Kyungpook Province, Korea before and during the COVID-19 period: a repeated cross-sectional study.Translational pediatrics · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectivesThe coronavirus disease (COVID) 2019 pandemic and resultant stay-at-home orders altered caregivers' responsibilities and children's daily environments. We aimed to compare the epidemiology and morbidity of foreign body ingestions (FBIs) during the COVID pandemic and the prior year.
methodsWe performed a retrospective review of children cared for at our tertiary care children's hospital for FBI from March to July 2019 (pre-COVID) and March to July 2020 (COVID). Cases were identified via a search of all diagnoses of foreign bodies (FBs) in the alimentary tract. Charts were reviewed to determine the types of FBs ingested and the patients' clinical courses.
resultsA total of 71 encounters were identified. Thirty ingestions occurred in the pre-COVID cohort and 42 in the COVID cohort. One patient ingested 2 different FBs. There was a significantly higher rate of FBIs per day in May 2020 (COVID) compared with May 2019 (pre-COVID; 0.387 versus 0.161;
conclusionsThe frequency of FBIs trended higher in the COVID cohort, with significantly more FBIs in May 2020 when compared with May 2019. Patients in the COVID cohort more frequently had FBs located beyond the esophagus, indicating later presentation and a lesser need for urgent endoscopic removal.
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