Head injuries in hospital-admitted adolescents and adults with skateboard-related trauma
| Autor: | Gail T. Tominaga, Jess F. Kraus, Kathryn B. Schaffer, Imad S. Dandan, Frank J. Coufal |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics Adolescent Neuroscience (miscellaneous) Poison control Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Young Adult Trauma Centers Injury prevention Epidemiology Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Craniocerebral Trauma Humans Aged business.industry Head injury Human factors and ergonomics Middle Aged medicine.disease Surgery Hospitalization Skating Mechanism of injury Accidental Falls Female Head Protective Devices Neurology (clinical) business |
| Zdroj: | Brain Injury. 29:1044-1050 |
| ISSN: | 1362-301X 0269-9052 |
| DOI: | 10.3109/02699052.2014.989404 |
| Popis: | To provide new information on properties of skateboarders who were hospital admitted with head injuries with details of the injuries including region of head impact.Hospital records of patients aged 15 and older with a skateboard injury admitted to one Level II Trauma Centre during a 10-year period were reviewed. Data on demographic, exposure, severity, diagnostic and clinical factors for patients with head injury (HI) and without HI (N-HI) were compared analytically.While there were no differences for patients with HI and N-HI by age, gender, mechanism of injury or alcohol use, patients with HI were more severely injured. Although significantly more head impacts occurred to the occipital region of the head, haematomas and/or contusions were much more likely to occur in the frontal region of the brain. Acute neurosurgical intervention was needed in 14% of HI skateboarders.Skateboarding is not an innocuous recreational activity, with head injury present in 75% of patients who were hospital-admitted. Pre-hospital treatment protocols should be aware of this growing injured population. Falls while on a skateboard lead to impacts to the back of head with a contra-coup brain injury resulting in severe and sometimes fatal outcomes. The very low prevalence of helmet use among skateboarders with head injuries indicates that greater efforts should be directed toward incentives for their use. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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