If your child breaks a bone, struggles to breathe or suffers frightening thoughts that tell them life isn’t worth living, will you know how to help them?

These are examples of medical emergencies that parents and caregivers must be ready to manage.

A medical emergency is defined as any point when a sudden injury or illness could end a child’s life or severely harm their health. Injuries are the number one cause of death among kids in the U.S., so families need to prepare themselves to act when seconds count.

The most common injuries seen in kids and teens include falls, car and recreation vehicle crashes, drowning, poisoning, burns, suffocation, sports injuries, and dog bites. In the U.S., more children and teens die from injuries than from cancer, birth defects and all other causes com

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