Author: Katrina Iverson, MD

Educational Pearls:

• The winter holiday months present a unique picture of patient presentations to the emergency department
  • Some of the unique presentations include:
  • Children falling off Santa's lap
  • Sledding injuries
  • Falling off ladders
  • Lacerations, ingestion, and insertion of broken ornaments (pediatrics)
• Parents tend to hurt themselves on their children's toys

References:

Lauche R, et al. (2018). 'Santa baby, hurry [extra carefully] down the chimney tonight' – Prevalence of Christmas related injuries 2007–2016 in the United States: Observational study. Advances in Integrative Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aimed.2018.11.004

https://areyouawellbeing.texashealth.org/common-winter-injuries/

Summarized by Travis Barlock, MS4 | Edited by Erik Verzemnieks, MD