Handheld Metal Detector Screening for Metallic Foreign Body Ingestion in ChildrenVigil James 1, Hazwani Binte Hamzah 2, Sashikumar Ganapathy 1
1Children's Emergency, KK women's and Children's Hospital, 2Department of Radiology, KK women's and Children's Hospital
Here, we present a protocol to use the handheld metal detector, to screen for the presence of ingested metallic foreign bodies in children who present to the pediatric emergency medicine department with a history of foreign body ingestion.
