Doctors are warning of the dangers of button batteries to young children after the death of a two-year-old girl.
Harper-Lee Fanthorpe died in hospital in Stoke-on-Trent in May after swallowing batteries from a remote control.
An inquest found acid from the battery burned through her food pipe and into a major artery.
Consultant paediatrician Anna Pigott said the case would stay in the hearts and minds of hospital staff.
Harper-Lee was admitted to the Royal Stoke University Hospital on 23 May after she started vomiting blood at home.
Her inquest on 14 June heard surgeons discovered a hole in the two-year-old's oesophagus. During surgery she suffered cardiac arrhythmia and died.
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