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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
Jul 25, 2021 · A total of 397 patients presented in the emergency room with injuries related to e-scooter accidents during the study period. There were 238 male (59.9%) and 159 females (40.1%) with a mean age of 30.8 years (SD, 10.1). The demographics and accident characteristics collected are shown in Table 1.
- Alexandre Coelho, Pablo Feito, Laura Corominas, Juan Francisco Sánchez-Soler, Daniel Pérez-Prieto, S...
- 10.3390/jcm10153283
- 2021
- J Clin Med. 2021 Aug; 10(15): 3283.
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
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.
Sep 25, 2024 · News. September 25, 2024. The rate of e-bike and powered scooter injuries surged between 2019 and 2022—by 293 percent and 88 percent, respectively, according to a new study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The research adds to the existing information and gap in knowledge on the sociodemographic and risk ...
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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Aug 31, 2021 · VandenBerg acknowledges that e-scooter injuries only account for 3.6 per cent of traumas seen in the emergency centre during the summer. "It's relatively uncommon in the grand scheme of things ...
