{"id":357,"date":"2021-04-07T07:50:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T07:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/?p=357"},"modified":"2021-04-07T07:50:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T07:50:33","slug":"updated-cpg-inhaled-foreign-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/updated-cpg-inhaled-foreign-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated CPG: Inhaled foreign body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Foreign_bodies_inhaled\/\">Inhaled foreign body<\/a> CPG has been updated by the CPG committee.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The Key points for the CPG are<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Inhalation of a foreign body (FB) into the trachea or larynx is a potentially life-threatening event requiring immediate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Emergency_airway_management\/\">emergency airway management<\/a><\/li>\n<li>FB inhalation is frequently unwitnessed and so a high degree of suspicion is required in young children with respiratory symptoms<\/li>\n<li>A history of inhalation or choking must specifically be sought by clinicians, and may have occurred days or weeks before presentation with symptoms<\/li>\n<li>A normal respiratory examination or chest x-ray does not exclude an inhaled FB<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The CPG forms part of suite of airway CPGs covering: Emergency airway management; Emergency airway management in COVID-19 context; Can&#8217;t intubate, can&#8217;t oxygenate; and Acute upper airway obstruction<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inhaled foreign body was an existing RCH CPG and will be considered for endorsement by PIC in April 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11797,28,9503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-cpg-posts","category-news","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}