A Missing Button Battery

Brendan G. Carr, Sarah E. Winters

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationVisual Diagnosis in Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Second Edition
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Pages5
Number of pages1
ISBN (Print)9781444333473
DOIs
StatePublished - 3 Aug 2011
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • 2-year-old boy in emergency department - complaints, of food intolerance of abrupt onset
  • Case 5, a missing button battery - swallowed by a child, playing with a small calculator
  • Next most appropriate management strategy
  • No apparent distress - tolerating secretions
  • Vital signs - being normal

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