Childhood accidents.

Bicycle accidents in childhood.

The results of a 10 year study of bicycle fatalities and an eight year study of serious non-fatalities are reported for urban Brisbane (population 1,000,000). There were 845 serious non-fatal bicycle accidents and 46 fatalities during the study. Boys were involved in 86% of accidents. Boys have an accident rate of 134.21 per 100,000 population at risk and a fatality rate of 5.06 per 100,000 at ...

Accidents in childhood.

During the past years the ever-increasing problem of accidents has engaged the interest of the medical profession in this country. In the early 1920's the Viennese orthopaedic surgeon, Lorenz Bohler, started to organize a comprehensive accident service covering Austria (Brit. J. Surg., 1934), which has become the prototype of similar services in other European countries. In this country the Bri...

[Drowning accidents in childhood].

This paper reviews the pathophysiology and therapy of the multiorgan failure which occurs with submersion injury of children. First, the influence of hypothermia, the pulmonary, cardiovascular, neurologic and renal changes and the blood gas, acid-base and bloodvolume and serum electrolyte disturbances are discussed in detail. The therapeutic procedures are separated in the cardiopulmonary resus...

Accidents in childhood.

Home accidents in childhood.

This paper first appeared in the New Englandjournal of Medicine (1959; 260: 1322-31) and is reprinted by permission. Copyright (1959) Massachusetts Medical Society. The following and many similar headines startle parent and physicians daily: 'Girl dead, boy blinded by antifreeze'; 'Three small children perish in home fire'; and 'Boy, two, dies in two-story fall'. To the physician, who today can...