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- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!mikejag!brent
- From: brent@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca (Brent Kennedy)
- Subject: Re: Paediatric accidents
- Organization: mikejag (mike) is a private system in Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:15:43 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.181543.6144@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca>
- References: <1992Dec21.060436.119@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca> <1992Dec21.182216.29606@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- In article <1992Dec21.182216.29606@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> zacek@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Daniel M. Zacek) writes:
- >brent@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca (Brent Kennedy) writes:
- >
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >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. :(
-
- I should have mentioned that we had of course looked carefully for signs of
- non-accidental trauma. I can't say it could be completely excluded in every
- case, as of course, it never can be, but I can say that it was extremely
- unlikely from what was seen and what was found. I don't believe ALL of these
- could be written off to abuse, though of course some of them may be. I agree
- with you, in that my first thought in ANY accident involving a child is that
- of abuse. I just finished working a stint on the Burn Unit, and you certainly
- consider it long and hard in many of those cases.
-
- Interestingly, this TV on the head thing has been seen once in an adult in
- this area, though I'm not sure of what the story of how it happened was.
-
-
- --
- # Brent Kennedy | The disease of "Trauma" is responsible for #
- # | more years of potential life lost than any #
- # brent@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca | other disease, yet it's also the most #
- # | preventable, does that make any sense?? #
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