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What exactly does a Pediatrician do for a newborn broken arm?

If a newborn breaks this arm in some way(Just curiosity), What would a pediatrician do for the newborn? And would an investigation be brought up on the parents for the broken arm?

Public Comments

1. Depending on the break, he may have to reset it and cast it. Doctors are mandatory "reporters" and if they suspect abuse they'd have to report it. However, if the break didn't get fixed, the parent would absolutely be investigated later, when he got shots, went to school, or had a checkup because there would be evidence of the break badly healed. Sometimes stuff "just happens" (I dropped my newborn at her adoption hearing, for god's sake!), and it's an accident. My ministers 11 month old fell out of her sling and was in a cast for months. Sometimes things "just happen" and parents lose their tempers. Having a newborn is stressful. If that is what happened, the parent needs to get help for both baby and parent-so both get theb help they need.

2. The pediatrician would send the baby and the parents to either an emergency room or an orthopedic surgeon's office for an evaluation and a cast. You can best believe the parents would be questioned about a broken arm in a newborn. Some pediatricians are very sensitive regarding child abuse issues and will contact a local child services agency for a review and follow-up. Some pediatricians may determine, based on what the parents say and an exam, that it was accidental. Broken arms in newborns are not common unless they have fallen or rolled off a bed, etc. Still the parents' fault but nothing that would need to be investigated. But you can best believe it will be documented and any other incidents will be looked at closely.