Caution: Batteries can kill 8½ -year-old severely burned after swallowing button battery, saved by Hadassah emergency surgery
A children’s game ended in two emergency surgeries at Hadassah Ein Kerem that saved the life of an eight-and-a-half-year-old Jerusalem boy who had swallowed a button battery. “Swallowing a button battery is considered one of the most dangerous emergencies in pediatrics,” emphasizes Dr. Mordechai Slae, a pediatric gastroenterologist at Hadassah. …
