{"id":5020,"date":"2015-05-04T12:46:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T02:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=5020"},"modified":"2015-05-04T12:46:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T02:46:03","slug":"simple-safety-prevents-complex-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/simple-safety-prevents-complex-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple safety prevents complex injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2015\/05\/RCHFalls_400x280.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5021\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2015\/05\/RCHFalls_400x280.png\" alt=\"RCHFalls_400x280\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2015\/05\/RCHFalls_400x280.png 400w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2015\/05\/RCHFalls_400x280-200x140.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH) Safety Centre has created a new online resource to tackle the number one cause of injury to children in Victoria \u2013 falls.<\/p>\n<p>RCH Trauma Service Manager Helen Jowett says the frequency of under 14-year-olds requiring a hospital admission following a fall has increased by 29 per cent since 1998, at an annual cost of $18.6 million. Most of those injuries occur in the home and behind those statistics are children like Ella, who had a tough lesson in gravity when she fell from a tree she was climbing in her back garden.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-year-old, from country Victoria, landed head first when she fell, and was rushed to her local hospital where she was assessed as having a significant head injury.<\/p>\n<p>Ella was promptly sent to the RCH\u00a0by air ambulance for emergency surgery. After discharge, she spent several weeks resting and was unable to play contact sport for three months.<\/p>\n<p>The new website shows that, unlike Ella\u2019s hospital stay, safety around the home doesn\u2019t need to be expensive, emotionally draining, complicated, or time-consuming.<\/p>\n<p>The site details simple steps parents and caregivers can take to prevent common injuries by age group, such as changing a baby\u2019s nappy on the floor rather than on an elevated change table and wearing protective gear, including mouth guards, when playing contact sports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit our new falls website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/falls\">www.rch.org.au\/falls<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RCH Safety Centre has created a new online resource to tackle the number one cause of injury to children in Victoria \u2013 falls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5022,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions\/5022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}