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Management of Pediatric Trauma: ENT View

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Pediatric trauma refers to injuries that cause damage in infants, children, and young adolescents, which are an issue that threatens children’s lives and should be carefully evaluated. Often children must be hospitalized and require immediate attention. Due to the severe anatomical and physiological differences between adults and children, trauma intervention must also be different. Due to the small body surface areas, vital organs in children are located very close to each other, so they become more sensitive to trauma than adults. Trauma is the most common cause of death in children in the United States, and it has been reported that 59.5% of child deaths under 18 years old are from trauma in 2004 [1]. The pediatric trauma approach should include the prevention of injury, the fastest transfer of the patient to the pediatric trauma center, the emergency intervention by the educated and related branches, the children’s rehabilitation, and long-term follow-up. This section will discuss pediatric trauma management in terms of ear, nose, and throat.

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  1. Alanya Education and Research Hospital, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, Alanya, Antalya, Turkey

    Murat Kar

  2. Section of Otorhinolaryngology, Haseki Training and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, İstanbul, Turkey

    Fazilet Altın

  3. Institute of Otorhinolaryngology, National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

    Dmytro Illich Zabolotny

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  2. Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey

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Kar, M., Altın, F., Zabolotny, D.I. (2022). Management of Pediatric Trauma: ENT View. In: Cingi, C., Arısoy, E.S., Bayar Muluk, N. (eds) Pediatric ENT Infections. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80691-0_91

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