At around 2 a.m., in a dimly lit room, a 22-year-old woman reached for what she thought was a painkiller for some earlier stomach discomfort. She swallowed a wireless earbud instead.
She was in an emergency department in Bengaluru, India within the hour, fully alert and completely without symptoms. The clinical question in front of her doctors was uncomfortable: an electronic device containing a lithium battery was now inside her, and no guideline covers that situation.
