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Aspiração de corpo estranho

Last reviewed: 15 Aug 2025
Last updated: 10 Jan 2025

Summary

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • presença de fatores de risco
  • crise de sufocamento
  • murmúrio vesicular diminuído unilateral
  • sibilância unilateral
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Other diagnostic factors

  • tosse intratável
  • febre
  • dispneia
  • sibilância bilateral
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Risk factors

  • nível de consciência reduzido (escala de coma de Glasgow <9)
  • idade <4 anos
  • idade >70 anos
  • disfunção bulbar
  • sexo masculino
  • doença cerebrovascular
  • demência
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Diagnostic investigations

1st investigations to order

  • radiografia torácica
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Investigations to consider

  • tomografia computadorizada (TC) do tórax
  • broncoscopia
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Emerging tests

  • ultrassonografia pulmonar

Treatment algorithm

ACUTE

consciente

inconsciente

Contributors

Authors

Arjun B. Chatterjee, MD, MS, FACP, FCCP, FAASM
Arjun B. Chatterjee

Professor of Medicine

Section on Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy, and Immunologic Disease

Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Winston-Salem

NC

Disclosures

ABC declares that he has no competing interests.

Acknowledgements

Dr Arjun B. Chatterjee would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Septimiu Murgu and Dr Henri Colt, the previous contributors to this topic. SM and HC declare that they have no competing interests.

Peer reviewers

Amber Young, BSc, MB ChB, FRCA

Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist

Department of Anaesthesia

Frenchay Hospital

Bristol

UK

Disclosures

AY declares that she has no competing interests.

Momen M. Wahidi, MD, MBA

Professor of Medicine

Pulmonary and Critical Care

Feinberg School of Medicine

Northwestern University

Chicago

IL

Disclosures

MMW declares that he has no competing interests.

Pyng Lee, MD

Senior Consultant

Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Singapore General Hospital

Singapore

Disclosures

PL declares that he has no competing interests.

Prashant Mahajan, MD, MPH, MBA

Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics

Vice-Chair

Department of Emergency Medicine

Chief

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

C S Mott Children's Hospital and University of Michigan Medical School

Ann Arbor

MI

Disclosures

PM declares that he has no competing interests.

Karima Lelak, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine and the Department of Pediatrics

C.S. Mott Children's Hospital

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor

MI

Declarações

KL declares that she has no competing interests.

Peer reviewer acknowledgements

BMJ Best Practice topics are updated on a rolling basis in line with developments in evidence and guidance. The peer reviewers listed here have reviewed the content at least once during the history of the topic.

Disclosures

Peer reviewer affiliations and disclosures pertain to the time of the review.

Referências

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Principais artigos

Boyd M, Chatterjee A, Chiles C, et al. Tracheobronchial foreign body aspiration in adults. South Med J. 2009 Feb;102(2):171-4. Resumo

Faro A, Wood RE, Schechter MS, et al. Official American Thoracic Society technical standards: flexible airway endoscopy in children. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2015 May 1;191(9):1066-80.Texto completo  Resumo

Hewlett JC, Rickman OB, Lentz RJ, et al. Foreign body aspiration in adult airways: therapeutic approach. J Thorac Dis. 2017 Sep;9(9):3398-409.Texto completo  Resumo

Perkins GD, Graesner JT, Semeraro F, et al. European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: executive summary. Resuscitation. 2021 Apr;161:1-60. Resumo

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