KK Women's and Children's Hospital

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Medicine

Handheld Metal Detector Screening for Metallic Foreign Body Ingestion in Children

Vigil James¹, Hazwani Binte Hamzah², Sashikumar Ganapathy¹

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.