Title: Anxiety and Chest Pain (ER)
Producer: Emily Halevy/Collin Siedor
Date: CWKN #382, April 23, 2008
Time: 1:36
SUGGESTED LEAD: WHEN CHILDREN GO TO THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE OF AN APPARENT ILLNESS OR INJURY, IF THE DOCTORS ARE CAREFUL AND PAY CLOSE ATTENTION, THEY MAY DISCOVER ANOTHER MEDICAL ISSUE, WHICH COMES AS A TOTAL SURPRISE TO THE CHILD’S PARENTS.
FROM THE EMERGENCY ROOM, CONNECT WITH KIDS HAS THE STORY.
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NATS: Dr. Mallory to Cary (:00)
“Did your back hurt?  Does it hurt now?  (nods head yes)

NARR:  SEVEN-YEAR-OLD CARY BRITTIAN (BRIT-en) FELL OFF A TRAMPOLINE AT HIS AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM … HE SAYS HIS CHEST STILL HURTS. (:05)

NATS: Dr. Mallory to Cary (:11)
“Show me where your chest hurts.” Boy rubs chest.  “Right there in the middle, okay, alright.”

NARR: THE DOCTOR ORDERS X-RAYS BUT THEY TURN OUT TO BE NORMAL.  STILL, HE’S WORRIED ABOUT THAT CHEST PAIN. (:05)

NATS: Dr. to family (:21)
“Has he ever come in and say “Oh, my heart’s racing or you know, it’s beating kind of strange when he’s having the chest pain?”
mom- “Yeah, but when he’s actually sitting still.  Every blue moon, he just wakes up ‘My chest hurts!’”

NARR:  AN ELECTROCARDIOGRAM SHOWS HIGH VOLTAGE IN THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS HEART. (:04)

NATS: doctor looking at EKG (:34)
“But it may be nothing, it may be something worth looking into, but he certainly does have some high voltage, which you can see these waves are running all the way up into the next lines waves.”

NARR: GOOD DOCTORS ASK LOTS OF QUESTIONS … LIKE THIS ONE: ‘HOW’S CARY DOING IN HIS AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM?’ (:05)

NATS: mom to doctor (:50)
“He’s big for his age and um, they don’t let him play with the smaller children, so they put him with the bigger kids and he’s getting roughed up.”  Dr. “Does he comes home upset.”

NARR: FALLING OFF A TRAMPOLINE MAY NOT BE THE REAL PROBLEM.  THE DOCTOR SAYS CARY IS SUFFERING FROM ANXIETY CAUSED BY A BULLY. (:07)

SUPER: Michael Mallory, M.D., Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (1:07)
“We grossly underestimate the price of anxiety and stress both in children and adults.  To the 8-year-old the stresses are different.  They’re not faced with making a mortgage payment or paying their bills.  They’re faced with feeling rejection from their friends or dealing with somebody who is threatening them or bullying them at school.  And I don’t think we can discount their stresses.  I think they’re real to them.” 

NARR:  SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF THE BULLY, HE SAYS, AND THE PAIN IN HIS CHEST MAY JUST GO AWAY. (:05)

I’M COLLIN SIEDOR FOR CONNECT WITH KIDS. (:03)

SUGGESTED TAG:   FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS OF ANXIETY AND HOW TO TREAT THEM LOG ONTO WWW.CONNECTWITHKIDS.COM.