Simple battery armor to protect against gastrointestinal injury from accidental ingestion

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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Main Authors: Laulicht, Bryan E. (Contributor), Deshpande, Vikram (Author), Karp, Jeffrey Michael (Contributor), Langer, Robert S (Author), Traverso, Carlo Giovanni (Author)
Other Authors: Harvard University- (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering (Contributor), Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Contributor), Traverso, Gio (Contributor), Langer, Robert (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), 2015-05-04T15:30:46Z.
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