Foreign body ingestion during the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective single centre review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, there were many changes in the provision of healthcare as well as home and educational environments for children. We noted an apparent increase in the number of children presenting with ingested foreign bodies and due to the potential impact of injury from this, further investigated this phenomenon.

Method

Using a prospective electronic record, data were retrospectively collected for patients referred to our institution with foreign body ingestion from March 2020 to September 2020 and compared with the same period the year prior as a control.

Results

During the 6-month pandemic period of review, it was observed that 2.5 times more children were referred with foreign body ingestion (n=25) in comparison to the control p

SUBMITTER: Festa NT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8316691 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature