Western view of the management of gastroesophageal foreign bodies

Table 1 Classifications of foreign bodies

Objects shape

Short-blunt: Coins, rings

Long: Utensils for eating, string, cord, toothbrush

Sharp-pointed: Nails, pins, tacks, toothpicks, chicken, fish bones

Objects including poisons

Button cell and disk batteries

Cylindrical batteries (these batteries do not typically discharge electrical current the way button batteries do)

Narcotic packets

Objects inducing esophageal or gastrointestinal obstruction

Magnets

Food bolus impaction

Superabsorbent polymers