ChoiceHub
A two-year-old girl weighing 12 kg is brought to a regional emergency department 90 minutes after being found with her mother's iron tablets. The pack accounts for a maximum of 500 mg of elemental iron missing. She vomited once on the way in, is now alert and playful, and her observations, capillary refill and abdominal examination are normal. An abdominal radiograph shows no radio-opaque tablets. Which one of the following is the most appropriate management?
Shared by Mornienmiddle twist

Keep going — a set of ten like this one, one at a time.

Practise more
See all