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UNIQUE MEDICAL PERSPECTIVE OF HOW CHILDREN ARE MORE VULNERABLE IN AUTO ACCIDENTS

The National Center for Health Statistics reveals that car crashes are the number one cause of death for children between the ages of 2 to 14 years old.  Aside from the tragedy of death, there are many other injuries that children are more susceptible to sustain during or after a car accident.  These could be injuries to the spine or abdomen.  However, these are only the physical injuries that a child can suffer from.  The mental injuries that a child can suffer can be as severe, or worse.   Imagine that you have just been involved in a car accident with your child as a passenger in the vehicle.  Aside from the injuries that would naturally stem from the accident, children are more vulnerable to injuries requiring severe medical treatment than adults.  For instance, one study identified that there was an “urgent need for healthcare staff to treat and identify potential psychological consequences and the importance of immediate accident experience on subsequent coping” with children and adolescents involved in road traffic accidents.  (British Journal of Psychiatry 1997) That same study identified that, though there was a decline in the severity of post traumatic stress disorder as time went by, children still suffered from serious traffic related fears and the parents of the children reported increased mood disturbance in their children compared to pre accident levels.  You West Palm Beach accident attorney should make it an urgent priority to ensure that the medical personnel treating your child assesses, with particular detail, the behavior and mood of your child prior to, during, and immediately after a road traffic accident.  The medical personnel should ask people that are routinely involved in the child’s life the differences that may not be noticeable at first glance.  With obvious injuries, it will be obvious to notice.  However, with subtle injuries it may take people that interact with the child daily to point out some of the changes.

 

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