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Chapter 29 - A Fall from Height

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2021

Shelley Riphagen
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London and South Thames Retrieval Service
Sam Fosker
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London
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A 4-year-old child was brought into their local district general hospital in his mother’s arms having fallen from a first storey window (around 5 metres in height), and rolled off the porch roof part of the way down. Mum was alerted to the fall by his 5-year-old sister, who was with him when he climbed on the dresser under the window and then fell out of the open window. Mum ran out the house to find the child prone outside the porch, crying and trying to get up on hands and knees. He had some bleeding from his forehead, face, nose and a little from the mouth. She picked him up, called the neighbour for help and took him immediately to the local A&E.

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Print publication year: 2022

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Aires, CCG, Ramos, LVS, De Figueiredo, EL, et al. Airway obstruction after bilateral mandibular parasymphyseal fracture: A case report. CraniofacTrauma Reconstr Open J 2020 March.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Krausz, AA, El-Naaj, IA, Barak, M. Maxillofacial trauma patients: coping with difficult airway. World J Emerg Surg 2009;27(4):21.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne Paediatric Trauma Manual. Online. www.rch.org.au/trauma-service/manual.Google Scholar

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