Simple battery armor to protect against gastrointestinal injury from accidental ingestion

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 46, 2014, Pages 16490-16495

  Laulicht, Bryan ^a,b   Traverso, Giovanni ^c,d   Deshpande, Vikram ^c   Langer, Robert ^b,d   Karp, Jeffrey M ^a,b,e  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^e HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Battery induced injury; Button battery safety; Coin cell battery ingestion; Esophageal injury; Ingestion of foreign bodies

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DIMETICONE; OXYGEN; SILASTIC; SILICON; SILICONE; SILVER; SILVER DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESQUAMATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM INJURY; ELECTRIC BATTERY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; HYPOBARISM; INGESTION; INTESTINE FLUID; NONHUMAN; QUANTUM TUNNELING COMPOSOCCUR COATED BATTERY; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENT; TISSUE INJURY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; BURNS, CHEMICAL; COMPLICATION; EATING; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOREIGN BODY; INFANT; INJURIES; PATHOLOGY; PIG; POWER SUPPLY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRESSURE; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; EATING; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; INFANT; PRESSURE; QUANTUM THEORY; SILVER COMPOUNDS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SUS SCROFA; SWINE;

EID: 84911890917     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1418423111     Document Type: Article

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