Acuphagia: Anesthetic implications
Rev. colomb. anestesiol; 49 (1), 2021
Acuphagia, the practice of inappropriate consumption of non-nutritive sharp metallic substances, is a rare form of pica and can lead to devastating consequences.1 Panel A demonstrates an ingested serrated knife in the right upper abdominal quadrant (Image 1). Panel B exhibits distended bowel loops, pneum...