{"id":1655,"date":"2015-08-17T03:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T02:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2015-08-17T03:00:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T02:00:52","slug":"home-safety-and-the-prevention-of-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2015\/08\/17\/home-safety-and-the-prevention-of-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Home safety and the prevention of falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital (RCH) Safety Centre has created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/falls\">new online resource<\/a> to tackle the number one cause of injury to children in Victoria, Australia \u2013 falls.<\/p>\n<p>Targeting parents of children aged from birth to 14 years old, the site details simple steps parents and caregivers can take to prevent common injuries by age group, such as<\/p>\n<p>* changing a baby\u2019s nappy on the floor rather than on an elevated change table, and<\/p>\n<p>* wearing protective gear, including mouth guards, when playing contact sports.<\/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 <strong>increased<\/strong> by 29 per cent since 1998, at an annual cost of $18.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>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. 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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/falls\/stories\/#ella\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/uploadedImages\/Main\/Content\/falls\/Ella.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ella was promptly sent to The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital by 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&#8217;t need to be expensive, emotionally draining, complicated, or time-consuming.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly for injury prevention around the world, the website is an easy-to-access repository for\u00a0information regarding, and links to, useful tips and advice that can be applied in any home anywhere, anytime. For example, falls-prevention safety pertaining to furniture, and to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairtrading.qld.gov.au\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0012\/256989\/bunk-bed-safety-flyer.pdf\">bunk beds <\/a>specifically, may have helped prevent my nephew from breaking his arm as a young boy.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital (RCH) Safety Centre has created a new online resource to tackle the number one cause of injury to children in Victoria, Australia \u2013 falls. 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