Boy stable after window fall

A YOUNG boy was taken to the Dandenong Hospital in serious condition after falling through a plate glass window on Monday.
About 4.30pm, advanced life support and intensive care paramedics were called to a Berwick home where they found the boy, aged 6, being cared for by his mother, in the bathroom.
Intensive care paramedic David Kervin said the boy was drowsy and pale and given the amount of blood he lost, it appeared that the glass had cut an artery.
“He had a number of cuts across all of his limbs as well as his chin but the most significant wounds were up under his right arm,” Mr Kervin said.
“It can be quite dangerous to have a cut under the arm like that because you have so many veins and arteries that run through your armpit there and potentially the boy could’ve lost his arm.”
Mr Kervin said the boy’s mother was distraught but provided proper care.
“The mother was very cool-headed and with the guidance of the Triple-zero call taker, she was providing excellent first aid by using towels to try and slow the bleeding,” Mr Kervin said.
“The child’s mother did a fantastic job with assistance of the Triple-zero call taker to provide vital first-aid before we arrived. She also did really well just to keep it together.”
Paramedics managed to stop the bleeding and gave the boy pain relief drugs and fluids to stabilise his condition.
The boy was taken to Dandenong Hospital in a serious condition.