Injuries from ingesting wire bristles dislodged from grill-cleaning brushes — Providence,Rhode Island, 2009–2012 |
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| Authors: | David J Grand Thomas K Egglin William W Mayo-Smith John J Cronan Julie Gilchrist |
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| Institution: | 1. Dept. of Diagnostic Imaging, Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown Univ., Providence, Rhode Island, USA;2. National Center for Injury Prevention & Control, CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA;1. Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University, Center for Injury Biomechanics, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA;2. Wake Forest University, School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA;3. Wake Forest University, Health Sciences, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA;1. Department of Prosthodontics and Periodontics, Piracicaba Dental School, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Piracicaba, SP, Brazil;2. Department of Prosthodontics, Meridional Center of Dental Studies (CEOM), Meridional Faculty, Passo Fundo, RS, Brazil;1. Tissue Mechanics Laboratory Biomedical Engineering Program and Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, United States;2. Department of Mechanical Engineering Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, United States;1. Mechanical, Material and Processes Laboratory (LR99ES05), ESSTT, 5, Avenue Taha Hussein 1008, University of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia;2. Laboratoire de Procédés et Ingénierie en Mécanique et Matériaux (PIMM-UMR CNRS 8006), ENSAM, 151, Boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France;1. Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Fungi and Mycotoxins of Fujian Province, The Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Biopesticide and Chemical Biology, and School of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China;2. Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA;1. Laboratoire de Mécanique, Matériaux et Procédés (LR99ES05), ESSTT, University of Tunis, 5, Avenue Taha Husseïn, Montfleury, 1008 Tunis, Tunisia;2. Laboratoire de Procédés et Ingénierie en Mécanique et Matériaux (PIMM-UMR CNRS 8006), ENSAM, 151, Boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France |
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| Abstract: | Foreign object ingestion is a common reason for visiting an emergency department; however, wire grill-cleaning brush bristles are an uncommon foreign object. This report describes a series of twelve cases identified in a single hospital system from July 2009 through June 2012. Patients included six males and six females; ages ranged from 11 to 75 (mean: 47 years). The patients all reported recent outdoor residential food grilling and use of commercially available wire grill-cleaning brushes. The severity of injury ranged from puncture of the soft tissues of the neck, causing severe pain on swallowing, to perforation of the gastrointestinal tract requiring emergent surgery. Before cooking, persons should examine the grill surface carefully for the presence of wire bristles that might have dislodged from the grill brush and could embed in cooked food. Alternative residential grill-cleaning methods or products might be considered. |
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