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- From: brent@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca (Brent Kennedy)
- Subject: Paediatric accidents
- Organization: mikejag (mike) is a private system in Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 06:04:36 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.060436.119@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca>
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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.
- It wouldn't matter so much but the frequency has been increasing, and in one
- case one of these accidents involved a fatality, and in a couple of others,
- fairly serious facial and head injuries. I don't quite understand how the
- child can pull the TV over, and especially with the increasing number of
- remote controls in use, why the child would be trying to turn the TV on by
- pulling on it. Has anyone else had any experience with these types of
- accidents??
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- # 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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