Update Course Rewind: CT Evaluation of Suspected Airway Foreign Body 2022

More often than not, in cases with suspicious story of aspiration, it's reactive airway and not a foreign body

Instrumenting the airway of kids that already have a reactive airway when there is no foreign body makes no sense

The institution was having a lot of negative bronchoscopies because of high concern about missing foreign bodies

CT scan will direct management regarding whether the patient needs to go to the operating room or not

False positives on CT for airway foreign body were very unusual, approximately 6%

False negatives can only be determined by whether something happened to the patient afterwards

Of all patients with negative CT who were called for follow-up, not a single one had any problems after discharge from the emergency room

CT for airway foreign body is incredibly surprisingly accurate

Foreign bodies do not need to be radiopaque to be detected on CT

CT can detect plastic foreign bodies and other non-radiopaque materials