Emerging battery-ingestion hazard: Clinical implications

Pediatrics

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1168-1177

  Litovitz, Toby ^a,b,c   Whitaker, Nicole ^a   Clark, Lynn ^a   White, Nicole C ^d   Marsolek, Melinda ^a  

^a National Capital Poison Center   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Button battery ingestion; Disc battery ingestion

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIRWAY; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BLEEDING; BURN; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ELECTRIC BATTERY; EMPYEMA; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; ESOPHAGUS STENOSIS; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FATALITY; HAZARD; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUNG ABSCESS; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY ARREST; TELEPHONE; TRACHEA STENOSIS; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TRACHEOMALACIA; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; X RAY FILM;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTROLYSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESOPHAGUS; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; TRIAGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953038524     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-3037     Document Type: Article

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