%0 Journal Article %A Colleen Taylor %A Jonathan Acheson %A Timothy J Coats %T Nasal foreign bodies in children: kissing it better %D 2010 %R 10.1136/emj.2009.086587 %J Emergency Medicine Journal %P 712-713 %V 27 %N 9 %X Objective To evaluate the use, success rate and time in the paediatric emergency department when employing the kissing technique to remove nasal foreign bodies from children.Methods The present work was a retrospective case note review for children attending with a nasal foreign body over a 15-month period.Results In all, 116 children had a confirmed nasal foreign body and 84 were treated by the kissing technique with a success rate of 48.8%. This group had lower rates of instrumentation (20.2% vs 53.1%) and general anaesthesia (11.9% vs 18.8%). The average time saved per patient who had the kissing technique attempted in the paediatric emergency department was 30.6 min.Conclusion The kissing technique should be employed as a preferred technique to remove nasal foreign bodies in children. %U https://emj.bmj.com/content/emermed/27/9/712.full.pdf