Journal of Urgent Care Medicine

Approach to Ingested Foreign Bodies in Children

Urgent message: Less than one out of a hundred cases of children ingesting foreign bodies requires surgical intervention. Identifying which children that could apply to, which need endoscopic removal, and those who can wait for spontaneous passage is an essential role for the urgent care provider. Herlene Chatha, MD and Hansel Otero, MD The case: An otherwise healthy 2-year-old boy is brought to your urgent care center by his parents, who are concerned that he …

On Stone Passage, Wait-and-See Prescriptions, Foreign Bodies, and Wireless Prescribing

Medical Therapy to Facilitate Urinary Stone Passage: A Meta-analysis Citation: Hollingsworth JM, Rogers MA, Kaufman SR, etal. Lancet. 2006;368:1171-1179. URL: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673606694749/abstract Key point: Medical therapy is an option for facilitation of urinary-stone passage. Medical therapies to ease urinary-stone passage have been reported, but are not generally used. If effective, such therapies would increase the options for treatment of urinary stones. The authors searched MEDLINE, Pre-MEDLINE, CINAHL, and EMBASE, as well as scientific meeting abstracts, up …