Emergency Medicine and Education Blog
It is another busy night in ED. The ‘Bat-Phone’ rings, gently pricking the ear to attention in anticipation of the next code…
We are bringing in a 60 year old lady with profuse diaphoresis, hypotensive with a systolic of 70 and altered conscious state…
From time to time little things get lost. Whether you are playing billiards naked in the dark; counting money with your tongue; battling with an electric rolling pin….or just ‘slipping’ whilst in the shower….you may be unlucky enough to find yourself in the emergency department desperately trying to manifest a more tangible excuse for foreign body concealment.
A long-term inpatient from a Psychiatric hospital presents to the Emergency Department with gradual onset of abdominal swelling over four weeks and acute generalised abdominal pain over the last 24 hours. Can you spot what might be causing his discomfort?
How many foreign bodies can you identify?
