Pizzol Antonio, Rigazio Caterina, Calvo Pier Luigi, Scottoni Federico, Pane Alessandro, Gennari Fabrizio, Cisarò Fabio
Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit, Regina Margherita Children's Hospital, Azienda Ospedaliera-Universitaria Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Turin, Italy.
Department of Pediatric General Surgery, Regina Margherita Children's Hospital, Azienda Ospedaliera-Universitaria Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Turin, Italy.
JPGN Rep. 2020 Nov 11;1(2):e018. doi: 10.1097/PG9.0000000000000018. eCollection 2020 Nov.
In February 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmed Italy. We retrospectively reviewed all attendances and emergency (A&E) admissions due to foreign-body ingestions (FBIs) to an Italian pediatric referral hospital, from February 24 to April 24, 2020, COVID-19 lockdown and compared them with the same period in the previous 4 years. A total of 101 cases were recorded. Mean age of admission was 4.6 years. Groups did not differ for gender ( = 0.4) or age ( = 0.3). Among FBIs ingestions, 24.0% occurred in children with <2 years of age and 47.5% in children from 2 to 6 years of age. In the 2020 study period, 9 patients were seen for batteries ingestion compared with a median value of one among compared periods. The rates of batteries ingestions increased significantly over the observational period ( < 0.001). We report a dramatic increase in batteries ingestions in children, a potentially fatal event, during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
2020年2月，新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情席卷意大利。我们回顾性分析了2020年2月24日至4月24日意大利一家儿科转诊医院因异物摄入（FBI）导致的所有就诊和急诊（A&E）入院情况，这期间正值新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情封锁期，并将其与前4年同期进行比较。共记录了101例病例。入院时的平均年龄为4.6岁。两组在性别（=0.4）或年龄（=0.3）方面无差异。在异物摄入病例中，24.0%发生在2岁以下儿童，47.5%发生在2至6岁儿童。在2020年的研究期间，有9例因吞食电池就诊，而在对比期间这一数值的中位数为1例。在观察期内，吞食电池的发生率显著增加（<0.001）。我们报告称，在新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情封锁期间，儿童吞食电池的情况急剧增加，这是一个潜在的致命事件。
