Child Injuries

CHILD INJURIES

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1. INTRODUCTION1. INTRODUCTION

2. WHAT IS INJURY

3. INJURY CONSEQUENSES

4. INJURY IS NOT ACCIDENTIAL

5. INJURY PREVENTION

6. CHILD INJURIES

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INTRODUCTION

Goal: we would like you to accept these main concepts:

Child injuries are serious health and social problem.

Child injury prevention is important, effective and quite easy.

Adults hodl the keys for health of children.

Children can protect themselves as well.

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WHAT IS INJURY

Burns from fire and hot objects

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Scalds from hot water and other liquids

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Injuries and burns from electricity

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Poisoning and caustic injuries

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Gun shots, pyrotechnics explosions

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Cutting and lacerating wounds

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Cutting and lacerating wounds

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Fractures, dislocations

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WHAT IS INJURY

Injury is serious event threatening all children.

• Two year old girl found grandmother‘s pills - serious poisoning.

• One year old girl grabbed boiling kettle electric cable. Scalds were fatal.

• 6 y.o. child played with electric socket and suffered burns from electric current.

• 4 y.o. boy has drawned in a family house swimming pool.

• Small child fell out of window. It survived, but with health handicap.

• Group of children played at building ground, one of them was burried by concrete tube - it did not survived.

• 13 y.o. boy fell from bycicle. Without helmet he suffered lethel head injuriy.

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INJURY CONSEQUENSES

úrazy48%

útoky a sebevraždy

10%

nemoci42%

Injuries are the main risk for children.

Children death by cause in Czech Republic300

deaths

2 000 - 3 000handicaped

45 000

hospitalised

450 000 úrazů

treated wounds

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Every injury brings serious consequenses for injured child, its family and whole society.

INJURY CONSEQUENSES

……consequensec for child, consequensec for child, family and ather peoplefamily and ather people

… … and for whole societyand for whole society

• pain, suffer

• handicap, social exclusion

• death

• trauma for parents, costs for family

• police, fireman, doctors intervention.

300 dead

3 000 handicaped

45 000 hospitalised

Ekonomical losses caused by child injuries are 10 - 15 mld CZK every year.

(2 mil CZK - treating middle sized burning.)

Every year in Czech Republic

Serious injuries:

Common injuries: Fracture, dislocation, scratche, contusion, minor cut, ...

Burning, scald, head injury, poisoning, drawning, fall, polythrauma, ...

… we all know these injuries, they happen, but there happen more serious ones ...

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Injuries are considered as normal part of life.

INJURY IS NOT ACCIDENTAL

RECOVERY

INJURYHANDICAP

1 second misfortune

Two year old girl found grandmother‘s pills - serious poisoning.

Small child fell out of window. It survived, but with health handicap.

Group of children played at building ground, one of them was burried by concrete tube - it did not survived.

13 y.o. boy fell from bycicle. Without helmet he suffered lethel head injuriy.

luckby chance

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Injuries are needless. Injuries can be prevented.

INJURY IS NOT ACCIDENTAL

CAUSE INJURY CONSEQUENSE

minutes 1 second weeks, months, years

Two year old girl found grandmother‘s pills - serious poisoning. Stačilo léky zamknout do lékárničky.

Small child fell out of window. It survived, but with health handicap. Okno mělo být zajištěno řetízkem, úraz se stát nemusel.

Adults did not create safe environment for

children.

Group of children played at building ground, one of them was burried by concrete tube - it did not survived. Znaly děti nebezpečí, které jim hrozilo?

13 y.o. boy fell from bycicle. Without helmet he suffered lethel head injuriy. Život mu mohla zachránit přilba.

Child did not know, how to behave safely

or behaved unsafe intentionaly.

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Injuries can be prevented by changing environment or changing behavior.

INJURY PREVENTION

Active way of prevention Pasive way of prevention

Child Parents, teachers, local authorities, parliement beahaves safely create safe environ-

ment for children

1-6 year

6-11 years

11-16 years

Child knows, what is dangerous, what it can not do.

Child knows dangers and how to avoid them.

Child realizes consequenses of its behavior, behaves

responsibly, protects its own health.

• medicines and chemicals are placed safely out of reach of children

• furniture without sharp edges

• wells and swimming pools are safely covered

• baby-seat is ready in every car

• protected crossings near schools

• safe playgrounds, ...

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Experiences teach us that injury prevention is worthwile.

Number of children deaths decreased by 90% in Sweden during last 50 years.

USA: Every one dollar payed for prevention saves 3 dollars in expenses for treating injuries.

IN Czech Republic number of children deaths decreased by 40% since 1997.

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CHILD INJURIES

Typology of child injuries according to age and place.

Pre-school Home, traffic, streets

• Child grabs electric cable and is burnt by boiling or friting kettle, iron - serious burnings, scalds.

• Child pulls down tablecloth with a hot soup, tea or coffee, burns itself by garden grill.

• Child plays with electrick socket or electric cable, bites electric kabel - serious burns of mouth, tongue, lips or fingers.

• Child falls off from an unprotected staircase, balcony - injures its head.

• Childs falls into garden swimming pool, pond or water barrell - drawning.

• Child swallows by mistake some pills, medicine or chemicals adults left without control - poisoning.

Environment should be safe,

child should be under control.

Age Place Types of injury Prevention

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CHILD INJURIES

Age Place Type of injury Prevention

Basic school

School, home, traffic, street

• Child swingles at the chair - head injury, brain tissue damage.

• Children chase each other, fall down from the stairs, on the sharp edge - concushion, fractures.

• Children exagerate at physical training, cross their limits - dislocations, fractures, back-bone injury.

• Children fight - eye injury by trammel, ruler, stick, air-soft gun.

• Chicane

• Children imitate action heroes from movies or games - falls, ...

Child knows, what injury is, knows possible threats,

dangers and consequences and

uses safety gadgets.


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CHILD INJURIES

Age Place Type of injury Prevention

Secondary school

School, playground,

traffic, street

• Boys climb on electric pillars or wagon,

they can kill themselves by elcectric

current. • Trainsurfing - fall under the train, burns

from electric current.• Jump into unknown water - spinal cord

injury, handicap.• Drug experiments, alcohol abuse -

poisonoing, falls, traffic accident.• Driving cars and motorcycles without

permission.• Extreme sports, adrenalin sports.• Chicane.

Child knows the value of its own life

and health,

knows the risks

and takes responsibility for its

own health and future.


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Injuries are the biggest enemy of children!

Every injury is needless, has its own causes and can be prevented.!

So little manage: to create safe environment for children and teach them to behave safely!

RESUME

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