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- From: zacek@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Daniel M. Zacek)
- Newsgroups: misc.emerg-services
- Subject: Re: Paediatric accidents
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.182216.29606@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 18:22:16 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.060436.119@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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- brent@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca (Brent Kennedy) writes:
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- >We have had an increasing number of rather bizarre accidents over the last few
- >months. They involve children with injuries of various severity from having
- >televisions falling on them, usually their heads. Apparently the child is
- >either climbing on the TV, or reaching up to turn it on, and pulls it over.
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- Have you considered the possibility of non-accidental trauma? It sounds like
- a good excuse for a parent, and I agree that the chance that a child would
- pull a TV on themselves is low. I've been suspicious ever since I was called
- for an insect bite, and found a femur fx on a 3 yr. old. :(
-
- /s/dan emt-p
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