Foreign Body in the Nose

Overview

A practical and surgical-minded approach to nasal foreign body extraction, especially in children. This is not a simple “grab and pull” procedure. It is a safety decision: is the object dangerous, is the child stable, is the object anterior or deep, is there a button battery or paired magnets, and do we have the vision, tool, and extraction vector needed to prevent posterior displacement into the pharynx or airway? The goal is not merely to remove the object; the goal is to remove it without converting a simple anterior nasal foreign body into epistaxis, septal...