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Changing battery type in household gadgets poses danger to children.

Two papers in the same issue of the journal Pediatrics review over 8000 cases of battery ingestion in the USA. The majority of cases are young children. Although the incidence of battery ingestion does not appear to be increasing the rate of major or fatal outcomes is increasing dramatically.
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Systematic review published: inflicted brain injury.

The Welsh Child Protection Systematic Review Group publish their latest systematic review in Archives of Disease in Childhood. This latest systematic review considers which clinical features distinguish inflicted from non-inflicted brain injury.

This is the latest in a series of systematic reviews from the Welsh Child Protection Systematic Review Group. Child protection is a particularly difficult and sometimes controversial area of paediatrics. Publications such as this are an important element in ensuring that child protection work is conducted as objectively as possible with a robust evidence base.

Link to paper in Archives of Disease in Childhood.

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