Falling In Children Research Paper

Discussion
The problem of injuries related to falling in children received a little attention from physicians especially in gulf countries compared to road traffic accidents; another new problem arrived with the exponential advance and growth of this country. While studies regarding road traffic accidents started in 1980s by Bener etal, [12] followed by overwhelming number of articles in the same subject, only few papers were written about injuries related to falling in children, in fact we could retrieve only few papers touches the topic with our limited search of the literature [15-3-13-4] . Our findings in this study are similar to the previous studies that found falling is the most common mechanism of injuries in children, which carries

Despite the few numbers of studies, we may regard these data as a factor in determining the severity of such incidents, as this will help the physicians to be enlightened with the severity of the injuries that presented in the ER in order to deal faster with them. Most falls related injuries could be prevented by developing strategies to substantially increase the profile of health education to parents and children, to educate policy makers and health professionals, and by environmental modification. Public education efforts regarding child safety could involve the media. We also note that in our study, injuries were frequent in the school-going age. Safety talks should be arranged for school children and their parents. There has been an intervention trial demonstrated the effectiveness through a home visit aimed at improving the home safety practices of families with young children in Karachi [15] . Also, a research review from UK with unintentional injuries in childhood has brought an effective strategy to prevent injuries related to falling [16]

Everyday, approximately 8,000 children in U.S are treated in the emergency rooms for fall-related injuries, almost 2.8 million children each year [2] . In Pakistan, a research was conducted about childhood injuries at The Agha Khan University Hospital and found that fall related injuries were the most common type of injury (44.5%). Injuries in children up to the age of 5, was head and face the most common, while in older children, extremities were more frequently involved [3] . Eighty-seven patients (6.2%) were admitted to the hospital, and six patients died (0.42%) [3] . Injuries related to falls from stairs represent a small proportion of injuries to children [5] . A lot of pediatric cases constitute the majority of presentations and visits in the emergency room in most high-income countries which shows that falls is a leading, if not the most frequent type of injury resulting in hospitalization [4-2] . A study survey conducted in China for children age group from 0-17 years old reported that for every child death resulting from a fall, there were 4 cases of permanent disability, 13 cases required hospitalization for 10 or more days, 24 cases required hospitalization for 1–9 days and all of these are a consequence of falling in children [2] . In UAE, Al Ain a study shows that falling is the most common injury in children age group from 5-9 years old, while in other age group over