The Hearing-aid Battery: A Hazard to Elderly Patients
- 1 September 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Age and Ageing
- Vol. 23 (5) , 425-426
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/23.5.425
Abstract
Owing to the severity of its corrosive effects, an alkaline hearing-aid battery in the external auditory meatus is an otological emergency. This report emphasizes the particular risk to confused elderly patients and points out that a delay in diagnosis is common. Aetiology, clinical features and treatment are discussed with reference to three recent cases.Keywords
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