Café Coronary

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café coronary

[kəfā′]

a collapse of a person who is eating, caused by asphyxiation that results from obstruction of the glottis by a food bolus. Because the signs are similar to those of a heart attack, such episodes are frequently mistaken for coronary occlusions. See also Heimlich maneuver.

Café Coronary

Complete and abrupt upper airway obstruction by a bolus of food, often meat, which occludes the oesophagus and larynx, so named as the sudden onset simulates acute MI; post bolus, CC victims are speechless and breathless
At-risk groups Inebriated, mentally disabled, those with dementia, those with dentures

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