Title:  Glass in Face (ER)
Producer: Emily Halevy
Feed: CWKN #387, May 28, 2008
Time: 1:38

SUGGESTED LEAD: EVERY YEAR, THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN ARE INVOLVED IN CAR ACCIDENTS, AND THE RESULT IS BROKEN BONES, WHIPLASH, SERIOUS CUTS AND BRUISES.  WITHOUT GENTLE DOCTORS AND POWERFUL MEDICINE, THE TRAUMA OF THE ACCIDENT CAN CONTINUE AT THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE TREATING A CHILD IN PAIN OFTEN CAUSES MORE PAIN. FROM THE EMERGENCY ROOM, CONNECT WITH KIDS HAS THE STORY.
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NATS: nurse “Okay, okay, listen, we’re all done, okay.  We’re all done.  We don’t have to do anymore.  I am so sorry.”

NARR: FIVE-YEAR-OLD CHICO WAS IN CAR WRECK.

HE WAS IN HIS BOOSTER SEAT SITTING BEHIND HIS DAD… WHO WAS DRIVING … WHEN A CAR CRASHED INTO THEM.  IT HAPPENED IN A CONSTRUCTION ZONE AND SOMEHOW A 40 POUND ROCK CAME THROUGH HIS WINDOW, SHATTERING THE GLASS. (:15)

NATS: doc “And that rock- that was just sitting on his lap?”  dad “It was on it’s lap- I have no idea where it came from.”  Doc “We don’t know if it hit him anywhere?”

NARR: DOCTORS HAVE TO REMOVE THE SHARDS OF GLASS FROM HIS CHEEK. (:03)

NATS: “No shots, no shots, he’s just gonna give you some medicine.”

NARR: THE BOY IS UPSET AND CRYING … AND THEY HAVE TO USE A SEDATIVE. (:04)

SUPER: Lonnie King, M.D., Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (:44)
“In the past either he wouldn’t have been uh, properly sedated- he would have been screaming and it would have been a terrible traumatic ordeal or he would have to go into the operating room, which there is a lot of risk there.”

NARR: THE DOCTOR GIVES HIM A MIXTURE OF SEDATIVES INCLUDING ONE CALLED KETAMINE … WHICH IS ALSO USED AS A HORSE TRANQUILIZER. (:07)

SOT: Lonnie King, M.D., Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
“it is a horse tranquilizer and it’s an unusual medicine, it’s in a class by itself, it’s called a dissociative anesthetic.  It dissociates the mind from the environment, from the body.  The patient is not aware of anything and is- has amnesia the whole affair- they don’t remember anything.”

NARR: IT TAKES 28 STITCHES TO CLOSE THE WOUNDS. (:03)

NATS: surgeon
“I do not think I would have been able to get that piece of glass out, though, without the sedation.  That was the- that was the problem.  And then anytime I came near him after that it was just- it was a hopeless cause.”

NARR: THE STITCHES WILL FALL OUT IN ABOUT A WEEK. THE DOCTOR SAYS TO PREVENT SCARRING, HE’LL NEED TO STAY OUT OF THE SUN, USE SUN BLOCK AND VITAMIN E CREAM.  (:09)

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

SUGGESTED TAG:   THE DOCTORS SAY IF THE BOY HAD NOT BEEN PROPERLY RESTRAINED IN A BOOSTER SEAT, HIS INJURIES WOULD HAVE BEEN FAR WORSE.  FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS AND OTHER STORIES LOG ONTO WWW.CONNECTWITHKIDS.COM.