Cotton Swab Foreign Body

A 48-year-old male presents to the internal medicine clinic with concern for a foreign body in his ear. He was using a cotton swab to clean his ear, when the cotton portion of the swab became detached and embedded in his ear.

The attending physician, Dr. Ostrovsky notes “Without the WISPR I would have had to send him to ENT because a simple curette couldn't snag the cotton and I wasn't going to fish in his ear with Alligator forceps without some visualization.”