ABSTRACT
Introduction Accidents with injuries to children happen every day and everywhere. Lucky parents do not see their children injured, or, in case of accident, only with harmless injuries, and no long-term complications. In developed countries, great progress has been achieved in accident prevention and there is widespread public awareness, in the light of the unceasing emergence of new dangers through trendy sports for young people, such as trampolines, wakeboards, and bouldering. “Reckless youth” is not just a phrase: their tendency to take risks is biologically determined.1 The medical team (physicians, nurses) is never limited to medical care of the child alone. What they do is related to the entire family complex of the child and to the immediate environment, e.g., kindergarten, and school, as well as to the bureaucratic needs of modern health insurance companies. Nowadays, the medical staff is trained to focus far more on the specific psychological needs of the individual child in direct relation to accidents. The medical expert is involved in front-line prevention, emergency treatment including sufficient pain therapy from the outset, mid-term, and long-term follow-up, which includes the individual, sometimes fatefully bad prognosis.2
