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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:32:48 -0800
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- From: rmccartn@CLN.ETC.BC.CA
- Subject: Re: Paediatric accidents
- Lines: 19
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- >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. :(
- >
- >/s/dan emt-p
-
- If TV are portables then I suspect it is the fault of the TV Stand
- W/wheels. The child pushes it back so the projection from the picture tube
- hits the wall and off it comes especially if there is a dust cloth under
- it.
-