Disk Battery Ingestion: eMedicine Emergency Medicine

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Disk Battery Ingestion: eMedicine Emergency Medicine

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Overview: Disk batteries are small, coin-shaped batteries used in watches, calculators, and hearing aids. The vast majority of disk battery ingestions occur when curious children explore their environment. Early published case reports of ingestion of disk batteries ...

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Tags: Emergency, Gastroenterology, AIDS, STD, Hearing Aid, Children's Health, Environment, Emergency Medicine

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Most Recently Shared on April 25, 2010 at 7:28 pm By:

J_Bohlen Julie Bohlen

Disk battery ingestion does not usually cause problems unless they become lodged in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. http://bit.ly/aAjrzU

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Pediatrics, Foreign Body Ingestion: eMedicine Emergency Medicine

emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: As children explore the world, they will inevitably put foreign bodies into their mouths and swallow some of them. Most swallowed foreign bodies pass harmlessly through the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Foreign bodies that damage the GI ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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SusanS_Health Susan Scroggins Active Health Library and Health Advocate

As children explore the world, they will inevitably put foreign bodies into their mouths and swallow some of them. http://bit.ly/9iONRl

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