This is what is important to know before you run with the child to the emergency room

The child fell or raised a fever and you think you might need to go to the emergency room?

Dr. Neta Cohen, a senior pediatric emergency physician and trauma manager at Dana Hospital, was a guest on the "Specialist Clinic" podcast to explain how children are treated in the emergency room, and what is important to know when a child is injured

Iris Cole

20/05/2022

Friday, 20 May 2022, 07:14

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The moment when a child is injured and has to run with him to the emergency room is one of the scariest moments for parents.

Dr. Neta Cohen, a senior pediatric emergency physician and trauma manager at Dana Hospital, was a guest on the "Specialist Clinic" podcast to explain how our children are treated in the emergency room, and what is important to know when a child is injured.

Like any concerned parent, our first question to Dr. Cohen was - what injuries are most common in children. "We mainly see three types of injuries - cuts, of all kinds and places, a lot in the facial area, limb fractures, and head injuries of all kinds." , Dr. Cohen explained.

Most injuries occur in early school years, especially fractures.

There is also a range of injuries for teenagers - especially those related to scooters and electric bikes and sports activities like basketball or football.

Very common.

A girl with a broken hand (Photo: ShutterStock)

Dr. Cohen stressed that the bones of small children are more sensitive, so in smaller children, aged two to four, sometimes come to the emergency room also because of more minor injuries. To the road or even just for a joint dance - and to get to the emergency room because of it. "The child arrives in pain and the hand in the position we know," said Dr. Cohen, The place is a simple manipulation. "

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"Depending on the level of pain, it is always possible to give pain treatment, such as Nurofen or Paracetamol, upon arrival at the emergency room," Dr. Cohen explained, saying that in mild cases it is enough and that it depends on the intensity of the pain. Pain that works more and affects more, "she added.

But apart from the medication, the emergency room staff invests a lot more resources to facilitate the child's experience." From the moment a child arrives at the emergency room In adults, "said Dr. Cohen," our waiting times are different, our goals are different, and the staff is dedicated to this goal, and of course we give priority to children after an injury who are in high pain intensity. .

"Trying to make this unpleasant experience more pleasant."

A crying child (Photo: ShutterStock)

Dr. Cohen wanted to emphasize that the staff in the emergency rooms make supreme efforts to "make this unpleasant experience more pleasant." She added that treating pain and treating anxiety are two different things. Movies, and the help of the parents of course. "We have a nurse who sings songs or soap bubbles to the child, we have a lot of aids.

The sorting itself is very child-friendly.

My children personally really like to visit the emergency room, "said Dr. Cohen.

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"But when I need the child's cooperation over time, such as sewing an incision, I need the child to lie down and not move for at least 10 minutes, even if the area is anesthetized - the children are very anxious, in such moments the child is also given anti-anxiety medication Pharmacological, "said Dr. Cohen," that way he does not remember trauma from the event, because that too has consequences, and the success of the action and its speed also depends on it. "

Dr. Neta Cohen explains how our children are treated in the emergency room, and what is important to know when a child is injured (Walla system)

"I would not allow my children an electric scooter"

Dr. Cohen sees, as mentioned, quite a few cases of injuries from scooters and electric bicycles. "I would not allow electric scooters or electric bicycles for my children," Dr. Cohen said emphatically.

She explained that there is an unequivocal increase in the presence of these tools, and that "studies done by us in the emergency room have clearly shown that injuries as a result of motorized tools are much more severe compared to non-electric tools, and in all organs - head injuries, abdominal injuries, fractures. "In the past, it has been very clear against the use of these tools, not only in children, but also in these adults, dangerous tools, but certainly at young ages."

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