Food choking incidents in the hospital: Incidents, characteristics, effectiveness of interventions, and mortality and morbidity outcomes.

Aim: Foreign body airway obstruction (FBAO) due to food can occur wherever people eat, including in hospitals. We characterized in-hospital FBAO incidents and their outcomes.

Methods: We searched the Japan Council for Quality Health Care nationwide in-hospital adverse events database for relevant events from 1,549 institutions.

Characteristics and Outcomes of Emergency Transferred Patients with Foreign Body Airway Obstruction in Tokyo, Japan.

Introduction: Foreign body airway obstruction (FBAO) is a life-threatening emergency, and the prognosis of patients with FBAO is greatly affected by the prehospital process. There are only a few large-scale studies analyzing prehospital process databases of the fire department.

Study Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate whether characteristics of patients with FBAO were associated with prehospital factors and outcomes.

Pain intensity during the first 7 days following the application of light and heavy continuous forces.

The purpose of the present study was to determine whether a force of 20 cN can be biologically active for tooth movement and to examine the pain intensity during the application of light (20 cN) or heavy (200 cN) continuous forces for 7 days. In the first experiment, a force of 20 cN was applied to eight canines in five volunteers. The mean tooth movement during 10 weeks was 2.