Button batteries kill. Here's how we can prevent needless child deaths from battery ingestion
- Written by Yvonne Zurynski, Associate Professor Health Systems Sustainability, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University
More needs to be done to prevent deaths from button batteries. from www.shutterstock.comDr Ruth Barker, Director of Queensland’s Injury Surveillance Unit is an emergency paediatrician, and an advocate for button battery injury prevention. She is the lead author of this article.
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