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Civilian Emergency Platform
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — A child fell from an open window, balcony, or terrace railing.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — NOT EXPERT REVIEWED — NOT FOR PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Child crying or quiet at ground, open window above, bystanders shouting.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Deformity, vomiting, or sleepiness after cry.
Scene hazards: Other unsecured windows, Crowd
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Call 112 — child fall from window, height, breathing.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Close/latch other windows immediately.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Monitor breathing and color — child may deteriorate after initial cry.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Do not offer food or drink.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Call 112. Child age, height fallen, consciousness changes.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Send someone to street to flag ambulance.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Any window fall child needs hospital even if walks.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Vomiting, bulging fontanelle in infant — urgent.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Do NOT pick up to comfort walking around — spine.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Do NOT assume crying means fine.
MYTH: DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Kids bounce and are fine after short falls
REALITY: DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Children suffer skull fracture and internal bleeding from heights adults survive.
DANGER: DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Bedtime after window fall with undetected brain injury.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Even falls from one story injure children — large head-to-body ratio.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Internal injury without obvious fracture is common.