At least one pediatric emergency department in Indianapolis is seeing an increase when it comes to button battery injuries.
INDIANAPOLIS — About two years ago, Mahziere Williams was a patient at Riley Hospital for Children after swallowing a button battery.Mahziere found the battery on the floor and swallowed it.In the ER, an X-Ray confirmed the dime-sized battery was stuck in the toddler’s throat.
“That was never my worry, my kid swallowing stuff and getting stuck. I was worried about him breaking bones and stuff like that,” Williams said. “You need to get these button batteries out really quickly. You have a matter of a few hours sometimes,” Dr. Brian Gray, Pediatric General Thoracic and Trauma Surgeon at Riley Hospital for Children, said.
“If you treat these patients like an acutely injured trauma patient, you get into the operating room a lot faster and you can actually save them and you can save some bad injuries. And you can actually get people out of the hospital a lot faster,” Dr. Gray said.“I think that the why is we've seen this increase is that button batteries are just a lot more prevalent. You know, we have a lot more small electronic devices in our houses, whether it's toys or remote controls,” Dr. Gray said.
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