Button Battery Safety: Industry and Academic Partnerships to Drive Change

Kris R Jatana; Silas Chao; Ian N Jacobs; Toby Litovitz

doi:10.1016/j.otc.2018.08.009

Button Battery Safety: Industry and Academic Partnerships to Drive Change

Otolaryngol Clin North Am. 2019 Feb;52(1):149-161. doi: 10.1016/j.otc.2018.08.009. Epub 2018 Oct 8.

Authors

Kris R Jatana¹, Silas Chao², Ian N Jacobs³, Toby Litovitz⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Nationwide Children's Hospital, 555 South 18th Street, Suite 2A, Columbus, OH 43205, USA; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Wexner Medical Center at Ohio State University, 915 Olentangy River Road, Columbus, OH 43212, USA. Electronic address: Kris.Jatana@nationwidechildrens.org.
² Northeast Ohio Medical University, 4209 State Route 44, P.O. Box 95, Rootstown, OH 44272, USA.
³ Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 3401 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
⁴ National Capital Poison Center, 3201 New Mexico Avenue Northwest #310, Washington, DC 20016, USA.

PMID: 30309675
DOI: 10.1016/j.otc.2018.08.009

Abstract

The pediatric button battery (BB) hazard has been recognized for several decades. In 2012, the National Button Battery Task Force was established, and most manufacturers have improved warning labels, more secure packaging, and made BB compartments in products are more secure. Tissue neutralization before BB removal (ie, honey or sucralfate/Carafate®) is an effective way to reduce the rate of BB injury. In absence of visible perforation, 0.25% sterile acetic acid esophageal tissue irrigation at time of BB removal is recommended as a neutralization strategy to mitigate injury progression. Future BB design changes could eliminate esophageal tissue injury.

Keywords: Button battery; Coin cell battery; Disc battery; Esophageal; Foreign body; Injury prevention.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Advisory Committees
Electric Power Supplies / adverse effects
Electric Power Supplies / standards*
Esophagus*
Foreign Bodies / etiology
Foreign Bodies / prevention & control*
Foreign Bodies / surgery*
Humans
Pediatrics
Product Labeling / standards