Point-of-Care Ultrasound to Evaluate the Acute Abdomen: A Case of Bowel Perforation After Unknown Single Magnet Ingestion

Rabia Malik; Julie Leviter; Isabel Gross; Saurabh Saluja; Robert A Cowles; Antonio Riera

doi:10.1097/PEC.0000000000002460

Point-of-Care Ultrasound to Evaluate the Acute Abdomen: A Case of Bowel Perforation After Unknown Single Magnet Ingestion

Pediatr Emerg Care. 2022 Feb 1;38(2):e1022-e1024. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000002460.

Authors

Rabia Malik¹, Julie Leviter¹, Isabel Gross¹, Saurabh Saluja², Robert A Cowles², Antonio Riera¹

Affiliations

¹ From the Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics.
² Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.

PMID: 34116554
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000002460

Abstract

We report the case of a 3-year-old boy who presented to the pediatric emergency department in undifferentiated shock with an acute abdomen. Point-of-care ultrasound revealed viscous perforation with a large amount of free fluid. Intraoperatively, a single magnet was discovered as the likely cause of bowel perforation and the resulting state of shock.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Abdomen, Acute* / diagnostic imaging
Abdomen, Acute* / etiology
Child
Child, Preschool
Eating
Foreign Bodies* / complications
Foreign Bodies* / diagnostic imaging
Foreign Bodies* / surgery
Humans
Intestinal Perforation* / diagnostic imaging
Intestinal Perforation* / etiology
Intestinal Perforation* / surgery
Magnets / adverse effects
Male
Point-of-Care Systems