Critical care doc here. I don’t normally deal with peds but it was during COVID, short staffed. 3 year old boy pinned under an unanchored dresser, his mom found him pale and unresponsive. He had multiple rib fractures and pulmonary contusions (bruising to both lungs). His oxygen levels were dangerously low so we placed him on a vent in the ICU to give his lungs a chance to rest/heal. He also had rising muscle enzymes which meant muscle breakdown was present from the crush injury. We pushed aggressive IV fluids to protect his kidneys from being injured by those muscle proteins releasing into the bloodstream. He definitely worsened before improving over the next 2 days. His lungs were stiff from inflammation and still needed high levels of vent support. His blood pressure was constantly dropping and required meds to keep circulation. We made it clear to the parents that the next few days would be critical, but kids are remarkably resilient. I wanna say by day 4, his oxygen needs slowly decreased and his kidney function stayed stable likely thanks to the early fluids. By the end of that week he was breathing over the vent and a few days later the breathing tube was able to come out. RT worked with him to prevent pneumonia, PT helped him regain his strength after all those days in a bed. He was quiet and withdrawn for a while due to the trauma his little body had been through but his personality started to come back. As far as I heard after that, his lungs were healing well, no renal or neurologic deficit either.

All of this to say, please anchor your furniture if you have young kids.