Magnet ingestions in children presenting to US emergency departments, 2002-2011.

BACKGROUND:: In the past ten years, there have been an increasing number of case reports concerning gastrointestinal injury related to magnet ingestions; however, the magnitude of the problem remains to be clearly defined. OBJECTIVE:: Examine the epidemiology of magnet ingestion-related emergency department (ED) visits among children in the United States (US). METHODS:: We performed a trend analysis utilizing a nationally representative sample from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) database for emergency department (ED) visits involving magnet ingestion in children Language: en