Abstract
4/2020
vol. 22
Review paper
Baby sleep incidental aspiration – case report
- Chair and Department of Descriptive and Topographic Anatomy, Medical University of Silesia, School of Medicine with Division of Dentistry in Zabrze, Poland
- Pediatric Ward, Multidisciplinary District Hospital in Tarnowskie Gory, Poland
Family Medicine & Primary Care Review 2020; 22(4): 349–352
Online publish date: 2020/12/29
Aspiration pneumonia usually occurs among infants with co-existing medical states like neurological, abnormalities of deglutition, gastroesophageal reflux or congenital malformations. In rare cases, aspiration can also be accidental among healthy children. In this group of patients, aspiration pneumonia develops less frequently because of properly working protective mechanisms. The author presents an 8-week-old baby with no-comorbidities that aspirated during sleep. Due to the Breathing Movement Monitor alarm and proper observer reaction, the baby was saved. Observation of aspiration pneumonia was negative. The paper also presents some theory about apnea and aspiration pneumonia in children.
Keywords
airway obstruction, apnea, pneumonia
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