In yet another incident of toppling TV sets injuring toddlers, a four year old girl sustained serious head injuries when a 30 kg TV set fell on her. The incident happened at around 11.00 am yesterday in Mulgrave, a suburb 22 km south-east of Melbourne, Australia. Paramedics reached the girl’s home at 11.20 am and found her in the bedroom with her head and face covered in blood. She was then rushed to Royal Children’s Hospital and is in a critical condition.
According to Andrew Bishop, an intensive care paramedic, the large-screen television which was perched on a chest of drawers at about one and a half metres high, fell on the girl’s head. He said that they had been informed that the girl was unconscious for three minutes before they arrived and that blood was coming from her ears and nose when they reached her.
“We inserted two drips into her arms” he said and added that they gave her a powerful medication for pain relief and anti nausea and fit a heart monitor and oxygen mask. Since there were high chances that she could develop spinal chord injury, she was carefully moved using equipment that were designed to keep her as still as possible.
