KK women's and Children's Hospital 1 article published in JoVE Medicine Handheld Metal Detector Screening for Metallic Foreign Body Ingestion in Children Vigil James1, Hazwani Binte Hamzah2, Sashikumar Ganapathy1 1Children's Emergency, KK women's and Children's Hospital, 2Department of Radiology, KK women's and Children's Hospital Here, we present a protocol to use the handheld metal detector, to screen for the presence of ingested metallic foreign bodies in children who present to the pediatric emergency medicine department with a history of foreign body ingestion.