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Paediatric Gastroenterology: Management of Foreign Body Ingestion in Children

Gain life-saving skills from healthcare experts as you learn to identify, manage, and prevent paediatric foreign body ingestion.

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Paediatric Gastroenterology: Management of Foreign Body Ingestion in Children

573 enrolled on this course

  • 3 weeks

  • 3 hours per week

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  • Intermediate level

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Understand how to respond effectively to foreign body ingestion in children

When a child ingests a foreign body, timely and informed action is critical.

On this three-week course from the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN), learn how to administer life-saving paediatric care for foreign body ingestion. This course is free to join for three weeks, with an optional upgrade cost.

By the end, you’ll feel equipped to handle these critical situations with confidence and precision.

Promptly identify and manage foreign body ingestion when it matters most

Foreign body ingestion in children poses significant challenges for healthcare professionals. Precision is crucial in determining interventions.

You’ll learn how to manage the ingestion of button batteries, magnets, impacted food, and sharp, blunt, corrosive, or superabsorbent objects.

Moreover, you’ll discover the different treatment pathways and tools needed to identify and treat this wide variety of foreign body ingestions.

Administer life-saving care to children facing a wide variety of ingestions and complications.

With this foundation, you’ll be able to confidently recommend and administer treatment and interventions for children who’ve ingested a foreign body.

You’ll also delve into discussions on prevention and how to collaborate with surgical, ENT, and anaesthesia teams on a case-by-case basis. This multi-disciplinary management and follow-up is often necessary for ensuring optimal patient care.

Learn from the healthcare experts at ESPGHAN

Throughout this course, you’ll gain insights from ESPGHAN’s team of experts, and learn from real-world experiences in paediatric gastroenterology and endoscopy.

To support your learning, you’ll review in-depth case studies and have access to additional resources from ESPGHAN.

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Skip to 0 minutes and 6 seconds This course actually is an amazing initiative started in ESPGHAN last year. This year, 2024, I was assigned as a lead educator for the foreign body ingestion in children. Not only for button batteries, all the types of foreign body ingestion, plus food bolus impaction and caustic ingestion, which is part of the clinical scenarios we address. This course will be interactive. It will be online. Anybody can do this on their own free time. There’s no limits for time. There’s a wealth of resources there with scientific references, videos, photos, clinical scenarios. There will be an amazing resource of knowledge for the next few years for any clinician who’s dealing with foreign body ingestion in kids.

Syllabus

  • Week 1

    Introduction to Foreign Body Ingestion

    • Course Introduction

      A welcome to the course, including an introduction to the key topics, learning objectives and your educators. This is a good opportunity to introduce yourself to other learners in the comments.

    • Button battery ingestion

      Learn about the common ways in which button batteries are found and ingested, the damage they cause and what you can do to identify, manage and prevent button battery ingestion.

    • Magnet ingestion

      Learn all about magnet ingestion, including epidemiology, risks, diagnosis, management and prevention. Hear about preventing magnet ingestion directly from our expert.

    • End of Week 1

      Test your knowledge in the end of week quiz, before we present the key learning points from week 1 of this course.

  • Week 2

    Ingestion of Sharp-pointed and Blunt Objects

    • Sharp-pointed objects

      Uncover the problem of sharp-pointed object ingestion, including the symptoms, complications, diagnosis and endoscopic management.

    • Sharp-pointed objects - clinical cases

      Learn more about the ingestion of sharp-pointed objects through real clinical cases. Apply your learning in the quizzes and share your thoughts and experience with others.

    • Blunt objects

      Explore the key considerations to make with suspected blunt object ingestion and learn how endoscopy is used in managing these cases.

    • Blunt objects - clinical cases

      Learn more about the ingestion of blunt objects through real clinical cases. Apply your learning in our quiz questions and share your thoughts and experience with other learners.

    • End of Week 2

      Consolidate your learning on the ingestion of sharp-pointed and blunt objects in our end-of-week quiz and summary.

  • Week 3

    Ingestion of Other Foreign Bodies

    • Caustic substances

      Learn about the risks and symptoms of caustic substance ingestion and understand how to manage these patients. Apply your knowledge in a real-world case study of oesophagitis.

    • Superabsorbent objects

      Uncover the dangers of superabsorbent object ingestion in this activity, including the symptoms and the equipment recommended for intervention.

    • Oesophageal food impaction

      Learn about oesophageal food impaction with a particular focus on eosinophilic oesophagitis (EoE) as one of the main causes and opportunities for raising awareness and prevention.

    • End of Week 3

      Consolidate your learning on caustic substance ingestion, superabsorbent object ingestion and oesophageal food impaction in our end-of-week quiz and summary.

    • End of Course

      Test your knowledge of the topics covered in this course with our end of course quiz. Conclude your learning with an end of course summary presented by our experts.

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On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Identify the signs and symptoms of foreign body ingestion in children.
  • Explain the steps to manage ingestion of button batteries, magnets, impacted food, and objects that are sharp-pointed, blunt, superabsorbent, or corrosive.
  • Describe how to deal with complications in foreign body ingestion scenarios in children.
  • Demonstrate understanding of the appropriate indications, timing, and equipment for endoscopic intervention, depending on the child and the foreign body.
  • Apply knowledge of imaging studies (e.g. X-ray, CT, and MRI) to the diagnosis, management, and monitoring of cases of foreign body ingestion.
  • Collaborate with surgical, ENT, and anaesthesia teams promptly and appropriately when managing certain foreign body ingestion cases.
  • Discuss how to raise awareness of the risks of foreign body ingestion and help prevent cases in children.

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for healthcare professionals who may encounter children suspected of ingesting foreign bodies. This includes paediatric GI doctors, emergency doctors, family doctors, and general paediatricians.

Who will you learn with?

Dr Tzivinikos is a Consultant Pediatric Gastroenterologist and founder of the PGHAN dpt at Al Jalila Children’s Hospital in Dubai and Clinical Professor at Mohamed Bin Rashid University of Medicine

I am a Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist from Ljubljana. My clinical and scientific research work is focused especially on H. pylori Eosinophilic oesophagitis and endoscopy.

Who developed the course?

The European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN)

The European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology & Nutrition (ESPGHAN) is a multi-professional organisation whose aim is to promote the health of children.

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