Seton Healthcare discussed a new study that finds more small children—particularly toddlers—are severely injured after they are attracted by what they see on the screens of larger televisions and reach for them, accidentally toppling them.
“I’ve seen deaths related to this,” says Dr. Eric Higginbotham, chief of pediatric emergency medicine at Seton’s Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas. “A child gets hit on the head and dies a couple days later from intercranial injuries,” such as bleeding inside the brain.
Authors of the study, published in The Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics, suggest preventing injuries by updating TV design and increasing public awareness of the danger.
