In this episode:

• Recommendations to a variety of jurisdictions that targets regulators to stiffen up button battery standards
• Improve surveillance and flow around this issue to receive acute rapid management if required
• How to identify if there is occult ingestion and if in doubt, urgent x-ray
• Most important thing is to prevent these injuries, raising awareness in general practice areas with posters can assist and when taking history lookout for difficult feeding or bleeding

Host: Dr Terri Foran, Sexual Health Physician; Conjoint Senior Lecturer, School of Women’s and Children’s Health, UNSW

Guest: Dr Ruth Barker, Emergency Paediatrician; Director, Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit

Total time: 21 mins