Jan 22, 2019
Author: Katrina Iverson, MD
Educational Pearls:
- The winter holiday months present a unique picture of patient
presentations to the emergency department
- Some of the unique presentations include:
- Children falling off Santa’s lap
- Sledding injuries
- Falling off ladders
- Lacerations, ingestion, and insertion of broken ornaments (pediatrics)
- Parents tend to hurt themselves on their children’s toys
References:
Lauche R, et al. (2018). ‘Santa baby, hurry [extra carefully] down the chimney tonight’ – Prevalence of Christmas related injuries 2007–2016 in the United States: Observational study. Advances in Integrative Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aimed.2018.11.004
https://areyouawellbeing.texashealth.org/common-winter-injuries/
Summarized by Travis Barlock, MS4 | Edited by Erik Verzemnieks, MD