Airway obstruction time and outcomes after foreign body airway obstruction: a nationwide prospective cohort study from the MOCHI registry
Outcomes declined continuously per minute of unresolved obstruction, with no inflection point or "safe" time window. This highlights that every minute of delay worsens prognosis, reinforcing the need for immediate bystander intervention.
Authors
- Mayuko Koba
- Kosuke Nakano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5356-7359)
- Tatsuho Kobayashi
- Tadashi Kaneko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7171-7231)
- Satoshi Yamanouchi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8986-8647)
- Taku Funakoshi
- Shoichi Yoshiike
- Kazuhito Tamehiro
- Masakazu Obayashi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8411-1442)
- Hirotsugu Kaneshima
- Yoshihide Nakagawa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3200-2476)
- Tomohiro Hattori (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1720-0191)
- Shota Nakao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8560-4086)
- Kosuke Shiroto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3674-5907)
- Eiju Hasegawa
- Kenta Ishii (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6491-5224)
- Naoki Tominaga (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1325-9578)
- Tomomi Iwashita
- Sunao Yamauchi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0694-9893)
- Mariko Sugita
- Ryu Sugimoto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6324-1440)
- Riko Wakisaka
- Masato Miyauchi
- Junichi Inoue (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2847-8578)
- Yosuke Homma
- Tetsuya Matsuoka
- Toru Hifumi
- Kiyoshi Matsuda
- Takashi Tagami
- E Narimatsu
- Hidehiko Matsukawa
- Kazushige Inoue
- Hatsumi Nakanisi
- TATSUYA NORII
- Daiki Sunada
- Ryuta Nakae
- Hiroshi Takase
- Yutaka Igarashi
- Naofumi Bunya
- Sung-Ho Kim
- Hiroko Kikuchi
- Ririko Kuwana
- Satoshi Takao
- Shoji Yokobori
- Atsushi Koyama
- Yasuo Shichinohe
- Yuji Tokuda
- Nobuhiro Sato
Institutions
- University of New Mexico (US)
- Nippon Medical School Hospital (JP)
- Nippon Medical School (JP)
- The University of Osaka (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Resuscitation
- Published
- 2026-02-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2026.111002
- Primary Topic
- Foreign Body Medical Cases
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology