Foreign-body Ingestions in Children During COVID-19 Pandemic in a Pediatric Referral Center

In February 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmed Italy. We retrospectively reviewed all attendances and emergency (A&E) admissions due to foreign-body ingestions (FBIs) to an Italian pediatric referral hospital, from February 24 to April 24, 2020, COVID-19 lockdown and compared them with the...

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Autores principales: Pizzol, Antonio, Rigazio, Caterina, Calvo, Pier Luigi, Scottoni, Federico, Pane, Alessandro, Gennari, Fabrizio, Cisarò, Fabio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc. 2020
Materias:
Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7673461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33294883
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PG9.0000000000000018
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Sumario:In February 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmed Italy. We retrospectively reviewed all attendances and emergency (A&E) admissions due to foreign-body ingestions (FBIs) to an Italian pediatric referral hospital, from February 24 to April 24, 2020, COVID-19 lockdown and compared them with the same period in the previous 4 years. A total of 101 cases were recorded. Mean age of admission was 4.6 years. Groups did not differ for gender (P = 0.4) or age (P = 0.3). Among FBIs ingestions, 24.0% occurred in children with <2 years of age and 47.5% in children from 2 to 6 years of age. In the 2020 study period, 9 patients were seen for batteries ingestion compared with a median value of one among compared periods. The rates of batteries ingestions increased significantly over the observational period (P < 0.001). We report a dramatic increase in batteries ingestions in children, a potentially fatal event, during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.

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