Pre-hospital triage of children at risk of oesophageal button battery impaction: the button battery impaction score.

Jules-Antoine Vaucel Cédric Gil-Jardine Camille Paradis Raphaël Enaud Magali Labadienull null

Published in: Clinical toxicology (Philadelphia, Pa.) (2024)

A button battery impaction score used readily available data to predict the risk of oesophageal impaction after button battery ingestion and before chest radiography. When further validated, this rapid tool may be widely applicable in determining an appropriate facility for patient transfer to either a local medical centre or a medical centre with the infrastructure for endoscopic retrieval.

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