Common Accidents in Paediatric Practice; Current Evidence for a 4-Pronged Strategic Framework for Prevention

Accidents are inadvertent untoward events that lead to injuries or diseases. In the healthcare setting, both patients and workers at risk of being victims. By virtue children’s evolving developmental maturity, caring for them puts all parties more risk. Having a comprehensive framework prevent accidents in paediatric practice is therefore crucial. This paper aims utilize primordial, primary, secondary tertiary levels prevention detail strategies preventing needle stick injury, exposure blood-borne infections, post-injection traumatic neuropathy, post injection abscess, Nicolau syndrome, fluid overload, drug overdose settings. Preventing selected disorders involves multidisciplinary team paediatricians, surgeons, orthopaedic burns plastic neurosurgeons, toxicologists, pharmacists, microbiologists, infectious disease physicians, anaesthetists, public health physicians.