Reported complications include abdominal pain, vomiting, pharyngeal abrasions, esophageal lacerations, intraabdominal trauma (e.g., liver laceration, splenic laceration, and bowel injury), fractured ribs, punctured lung, pneumothoraces, a pneumomediastinum, and even retinal detachment. While these potential complications are serious, not relieving an airway foreign body obstruction can result in death.