Qilu Evening News Qilu One Point Reporter Chen Xiaoli Correspondent Lin Yu Zhang Xiao Wang Zhenxian
Recently, a 2-year-old child was treated at the Second Hospital of Shandong University for mistakenly taking a button battery. In an urgent situation, the gastroenterology team of the Children's Medical Center, the laboratory, the digestive endoscopy center, the anesthesiology department and the operating room worked together to successfully remove the battery and save the child's life.
That night, the child Mao Mao (pseudonym) mistakenly took a button battery, parents found that immediately after the local hospital, after examination found that the foreign body embedded in the esophagus, if not removed in time, may lead to esophageal perforation and other serious complications, the local doctor suggested emergency transfer to the Second Hospital of Shandong University for endoscopic removal, parents with Mao Mao rushed to Jinan.
Qi Lu and Zhang Xiao, doctors of the Gastroenterology Specialty Group of the Children's Medical Center, rushed from home to the hospital and made preparations before the child arrived at the hospital. The medical department opened a green channel for the treatment of children, and after the children arrived at the hospital, they urgently improved the preoperative examination, raced against the clock, and successfully completed the esophageal foreign body removal at one o'clock in the morning with the strong support of the medical staff of the laboratory, endoscopy room and anesthesia department.
Under the digestive endoscopy, the coin cell battery is continuously discharged and cauterized in the hairy esophagus, coupled with the leakage and corrosion of the alkaline fluid in the battery, resulting in erosion of the mucous membrane of the esophagus at the remaining site, and some of the burns are black, but fortunately removed in time, not perforated, and surgical operations are avoided.
Children due to curiosity, often appear to take foreign bodies by mistake, especially from 6 months to 6 years old children, common foreign bodies are: coins, coin batteries, magnets, toys, glass balls, date nuclei, hairpins, pins, etc., about 70% of foreign bodies will be stuck in the esophagus, mainly the three stenosis of the esophagus, foreign body retention can lead to gastrointestinal perforation, bleeding, obstruction, serious complications often require surgical treatment, esophageal foreign body caused by the highest complications, proportional to the retention time, retention > 24h, The complication rates at 72 hours were 2 times and 7 times, respectively.
Parents must pay attention not to place the above dangerous items within the reach of children, and once there is a case of misdirection or suspicion of misdidentification, please seek medical attention as soon as possible!