This episode of PDACast is brought to you by trainees for child injury prevention and nationwide children's hospital. Hello, everyone, and welcome once again to Piedacast.

We are a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike coming to you from the campus of nationwide children's hospital.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It's episode 584.

We're calling this one the dangers of button batteries. I want to welcome

all of you to the program. So button batteries are small, shiny, and powerful. You know what they

look like. They're round and flat and often in electronics and toys and hearing aids and all sorts

of things. In fact, they're hiding in lots of

everyday items throughout our homes. But did you know that these common power sources can

cause life-threatening injuries in young children? They can. And probably more often than you

would imagine. In fact, about once every 75 minutes a child presents to an emergency

department in the United States because of a button battery injury. And so these are really

important to think about because it's preventable, 100% preventable by keeping these batteries

out of the hands of children. So this is important

information. We're going to explore button battery safety, including what makes these batteries so

dangerous, what symptoms result when they're swallowed or put up the nose or inside an ear?

What should you do if your child does that? So if they put one in their mouth and

swallow it or one in their ear or one in their nose, what do you do? And then how can we

prevent these potentially tragic injuries? We'll answer all of these questions and more. And of course,

in our usual pedicast fashion, we have two terrific guests joining us in the studio this week.

Dr. Chris Jatana, he is a pediatric ear,ose and throat surgeon, and Dr. Hunter Holsinger,

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