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Nasal foreign bodies in children: kissing it better
Colleen Taylor1, Jonathan Acheson, Timothy J Coats
1Emergency Department, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Infirmary Road, Leicester, LE1 5WW, UK.
Objective:
To evaluate the use, success rate and time in the paediatric emergency department when employing the kissing technique to remove nasal foreign bodies from children.
Methods:
The present work was a retrospective case note review for children attending with a nasal foreign body over a 15-month period.
Results:
In all, 116 children had a confirmed nasal foreign body and 84 were treated by the kissing technique with a success rate of 48.8%. This group had lower rates of instrumentation (20.2% vs 53.1%) and general anaesthesia (11.9% vs 18.8%). The average time saved per patient who had the kissing technique attempted in the paediatric emergency department was 30.6 min.
Conclusion:
The kissing technique should be employed as a preferred technique to remove nasal foreign bodies in children.
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