Simple Foreign Body Removal

What Types of Foreign Bodies do We Remove?

At Pinnacle Urgent Care we are equipped to remove the following types of foreign bodies:

Small objects in the ear
Small objects in the nose
Fishing hooks in the skin
Splinters
Vaginal foreign bodies
Ring stuck on a finger
Piece of metal or foreign body on the eye ball surface

What is the Procedure Required for Foreign Body Removal?

Depending on the location it can be as simple as using the correct tool to pull a foreign body
out of the ear.

SKIN FOREIGN BODY (For this, we will use a fish hook as an example).

The clinician will first clean around the area
Anesthetize the skin around the hook with lidocaine
Using a pair of pliers the hook must then be advanced forward to push it forward as opposed to pulling it out
After removing the fish hook your clinician will most likely recommend a short course of antibiotics to prevent infection

RING STUCK ON THE FINGER

If you start to have finger swelling and are unable to remove a ring from your finger, please
come to Pinnacle Urgent Care for assistance. We can start with a string trick to remove the ring
without having to cut it. Should this not work, we also have a special tool we can use to
cut a ring off. This device has a special barrier between the ring and the finger to ensure only
the ring will be cut and that there is zero change of cutting the finger.