Jacqui Wise
The latest YouTube craze?
Thankfully not. Instead, this is good news. Surgeons have linked the move to a cashless society to a dramatic drop in children needing operations for accidentally swallowing small items such as coins.
Cash isn’t king?
Researchers reviewed hospital episode statistics (HES) between 2000 and 2022 for procedures to remove foreign bodies from the alimentary tract, respiratory tract, and nasal cavity in 0-14 year olds. The study, published in the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, found the total number …