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Trauma prevention
Accident prevention
Department of Paediatric Emergency Medicine, St Mary’s Hospital, London, UK
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Dr I Maconochie, Department of Paediatric Emergency Medicine, St Mary’s Hospital, South Wharf Road, London W2 1NY, UK;
i.maconochie@ic.ac.uk
A priority for paediatricians
Keywords: accident; trauma; injury; prevention
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Trauma prevention is a neglected area from the point of view of coordinated input by paediatricians at local level and to an extent at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) level. This oversight is surprising given that injury to children is associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. Part of the difficulty generating interest in trauma prevention may lie in the relatively intangible benefits of reducing injury, but nonetheless every paediatrician should consider it within their remit to take any opportunity to reduce accidents which account for over one third of all deaths up to19 years of age. Injury prevention schemes can be cost effective provided they are well directed with achievable goals.1
Effective injury prevention depends on a combination of three areas of implementation: education, alteration of environmental hazard, and the enforcement of safety legislation. Paediatricians can be involved in improving all the elements of
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