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A 2-year-old boy is brought into the emergency room with wheezing and stridor. The parents accompanying the child tell you that they are sure there is a peanut stuck in his windpipe. This happened 3–4 h prior to admission. The time is now 6 p.m. Chest exam exhibits classical laryngeal obstruction and with decreased bilateral air entry. The child is frightened and very distressed. He will not have any noninvasive monitors put on, including the oxygen saturation. You are comforted by the fact that he does not look cyanosed. He is using his accessory muscles and everyone can hear that he is wheezing with each forced exhalation.
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Brock-Utne, J.G. (2013). Case 57: A Peanut in the Airway. In: Near Misses in Pediatric Anesthesia. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7040-3_57
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