Aspiration of Food and Vomit.
Aspiration of Food and Vomit.
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食物和呕吐物的误吸。
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordjournals.qjmed.a066812
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发表时间:
1958
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通讯作者:
A. Gardner
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作者:
A. Gardner
Since classical times the danger of suffocation from food or drink entering the lungs has been recognized. Hippocrates (c. 400 BC) warned his hearers that'for drinking to provoke a slight cough, or for swallowing to be forced, is bad'. Anacreon, the Greek poet, is said to have died in 475 BC from inhalation of a grape seed (Paris and Fonblanque, 1823a). It is also recorded that during a feast at Winchester in AD 1053 Edward the Confessor accused Godwin, Earl of Wessex, of having murdered Alfred the Etheling. Godwin, protesting his innocence, said'If I am guilty may this bread choke me'. He ate the bread, fell down in a fit, and died. More recently, in 1583, the English poet Humphrey Gilbert choked and died with a piece of mutton in his glottis. John Hunter was aware that drinks could be aspirated into the lungs, for he stated in 1781, while giving evidence at the trial of Captain John Donellan for the murder of Sir Theodoaius Broughton:'It is in the mouth of everybody that a little brandy will kill a cat. I have made the experiment; in all those cases where it kills the cat, it kills the cat by getting into her lungs, not her stomach.'It is a matter of common sense that aspiration will occur if attempts are made to feed unconscious patients; Pridie (1862-3) told of snch an occurrence in a boy in Newcastle, who was' threatened with syncope'during an anaesthetic and died while an attempt was being made to pour brandy down his throat. That aspirations are particularly prone to occur in pharyngeal paralysis was shown experimentally in animals by Mendelssohn (1845), and recognized clinically in diphtheria by Momsseau (1851) and West (1866). N61aton (1876) remarked that food aspiration was common in the aged or moribund, in coma, and in diphtheritic paralysis. Wilks and Moxon in 1889 observed that such accidents