Battery Ingestion Treatment Guidelines

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Dec 31, '13 by turnforthenurseRN

Excellent learned opportunity. I wanted to share.

http://www.poison.org/battery/guideline.asp

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Jan 1 by ~*Stargazer*~

Wow, this is great! Thank you for sharing.
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Jan 1 by ERRN324

Really nice to know. We had a patient who would swallow batteries nearly weekly for years until she was judicially committed. We would send her to GI lab to remove it every time.
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Jan 1 by Esme12 Asst. Admin

very cool

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