Simple battery armor to protect against gastrointestinal injury from accidental ingestion
Inadvertent battery ingestion in children and the associated morbidity and mortality results in thousands of emergency room visits every year. Given the risk for serious electrochemical burns within hours of ingestion, the current standard of care for the treatment of batteries in the esophagus is e...
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National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96898 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4260-2785 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4255-0492 |