Pulse: check. Breath rate: check. Temperature: check. Neighborhood information? Yes, it does sound crazy, but it just may happen soon: the neighborhood in which a child lives may soon serve as a vital sign. The potential value of this information has just been uncovered in a recent study conducted by the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
Parents have been warned of the dangers that button batteries, magnetic balls, legos and detergent pods present to little children. Now a new, highly dangerous item has made the list after an 8-month-old baby girl, Aunraya, from Texas swallowed the item: a superabsorbent polymer ball.
Researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio have found that the number of battery-related emergency room visits for children 18 or younger have doubled over the last twenty years, going from 2,591 ER visits in 1990 to 5,525 in 2009.
