A previously healthy 18-month-old, afebrile male child, presented vomiting during recovering from anesthesia for palpebral injury suture, progressing to respiratory failure requiring ventilatory assistance. Anteroposterior view of the chest demonstrating opacities in the right upper lobe and in the upper segment of the left lower lobe, which represent usual sites in cases of aspiration occurring with the child in dorsal decubitus.