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Jan 10, 2024 · Patients hospitalized with scooter-related injuries were more likely to be under the age of 18 compared to those with bicycle injuries (26.7% compared to 16.4%), and more likely to undergo surgery ...
- Arianna Johnson
Jan 18, 2024 · The number of electric scooter-related injuries has jumped nationwide over a recent five-year period, according to the results of a recent study. Looking at 2016-2020 data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s National Inpatient Sample , researchers compared trends and outcomes for scooter- and bicycle-related injuries among nearly 93,000 patients who were hospitalized for ...
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There have been 675 crashes involving scooters that required an emergency room visit in Calgary from May 28 — when the city gave the go-ahead for e-scooters to resume rentals — to Aug. 24, according to an ongoing study. Stephanie VandenBerg is a University of Calgary clinical assistant professor involved in the study that has been tracking the numb...
Beltran's accident happened despite improved safety measures instituted by the city after a two-year pilot project. This past spring, it was announced that scooters were here to stay and that the companies, Bird Canada and Neuron Mobility were the chosen operators to put a combined fleet of 1,500 permanent scooters on Calgary roads and adhere to a ...
At this time the city has no plans to change the e-scooter program, but did say they plan to continue to monitor activities, reports and statistics from the e-scooters and will introduce further changes if necessary. Despite the number of injuries that have been reported, VandenBerg doesn't believe the solution is to ban the devices. "What we know ...
Mar 9, 2021 · Head injuries are the most common injuries in patients with scooter-related trauma. In all patients presenting to the ED with standing motorized scooter injuries, nearly 30% of them were diagnosed with head and neck trauma . Such injuries include fractures of the skull, face, and neck; soft tissue injuries; dental injuries; concussion; and ...
- Woon Cho Kim, Andre R Campbell
- 2021
A 77.0% increase in scooter injuries was found for 23 – 39 year olds from 2016 to 2017. Head injuries were the most common body area injured (27.6%). Fractures or dislocations (25.9%) were the most common diagnosis. The most common site of fracture was the wrist and lower arm (35.4%). There were no deaths.
The incidence of electric scooter-associated injuries has increased considerably since the expansion of electric scooter sharing companies in late 2017.3 So far, research on electric scooter injuries has been conducted in major urban areas across Europe, Asia and Oceania.4 In some emergency departments, the number of injuries associated with electric scooters is now similar to that of cycling ...
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Jan 9, 2024 · Scooter riders were more likely to sustain long bone fractures or paralysis compared to bicycle riders; risks associated with traumatic brain injury were similar among the two groups. During the study period (2016-2020), total annual costs of hospitalizations in patients with bicycle and scooter-related injuries increased by nearly 5-fold, from $6.6 million in 2016 to $35.5 million in 2020.
