New study on Unintentional Window Falls in Children and Adolescents in the U.S.

Posted July 20, 2020

There's a new study published on Window Falls in the U.S, that could contribute to this ongoing discussion. 

Unintentional Window Falls in Children and Adolescents. by Flaherty MR, Raybould T, Savarino J, et al. Acad Pediatr. 2020;S1876-2859(20)30428-9. doi:10.1016/j.acap.2020.07.008. See full Abstract here.
    There were 38,840 ED visits and 496 regional patients between 0-17 years old who unintentionally fell from a window across the study period January 2007 to late 2017. The majority of falls occurred in children under the age of 6, and were related to falls from a second story or below. A high number of falls were found to occur in smaller cities and from single family residences. Falls from windows represent a low proportion of overall types of unintentional sources of injury in children, but are a high-risk for severe disability.

For the Canadian view, be sure to look at the Loop WEBINAR: 
"Preventing Paediatric Window Falls: A collaborative approach to effecting National Building Code change" December 3 2019 with presenters Dr Simonelli and Mr Bruce Schultz from Calgary.
An update is posted in Loop Jr Discussions at https://jr.fallsloop.com/discussions/11003

This webinar recording is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_ny6B5JVrU4 
The slide deck is available at the following link: https://jr.fallsloop.com/services/webinars/archived-webinars

An earlier news article on "Changing the National Building Code can keep kids from falling out windows and sustaining serious injuries" was posted to Loop Jr in April 2019 by Pam Fusilli of Parachute Canada. See: Discussion and further comments and links here.