Trauma team treats toddler left critical after fall (Dee Why)

Ian Badham
21st July 2008, 2:20pm

updated 3.20pm

A toddler remains in a critical condition in hospital after falling from a top bunk at his home at Dee Why, on Sydney’s northern beaches, today.

Quick efforts by the boy’s mother and emergency services revived the boy who was found unconscious and not breathing shortly before 12.30 pm.

Police met the NRMA CareFlight helicopter and secured a landing area in Dee Why Reserve.

Police took the trauma doctor and flight paramedics a short distance to the family home at Kalora Avenue just minutes after ambulance paramedics reached the scene and started their treatment.

The NRMA CareFlight doctor said mother’s CPR re-established the two-year-old boy’s breathing before the ambulance paramedics were able to revert his heart to a normal rhythm.

The doctor then administered further intensive care stabilisation and placed the boy on a ventilator to control his breathing.

Intensive care treatment continued as the boy was flown to the Sydney Children’s Hospital at Randwick where he arrived at 1.30 pm in a critical condition.

ENDS: For further information please contact NRMA CareFlight spokesman Ian Badham on 0418 245 748.

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