Citation

Mazurek AJ. J. Accid. Emerg. Med. 1994; 11(1): 9-16.

Affiliation

Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7921561

PMCID

PMC1342368

Abstract

Thousands of young lives are lost every year as a result of accidents, and trauma remains the number one cause of paediatric death. There is a pattern and regularity to children's injury: boys are more often victims than the girls, most injuries occur during the summer months, the pedestrian child has usually been the victim of a road traffic accident (RTA) and, in 75% of these cases, has suffered head injury. The research into paediatric trauma is still very young. For instance, socio-economic and ethnic factors play a significant role in the statistics of accidental death. In order to take effective preventative measures more factors must be determined.

Language: en