Evaluation of scooter-related injuries in children☆
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Materials and methods
We reviewed the clinical records of all children up to 16 years of age with a diagnosis of scooter-related trauma who arrived at the pediatric emergency department from January 1, 2000 to February 28, 2001 in the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV) as well as the Hopital de l'Enfance (HEL) in Lausanne, Switzerland.
A datasheet was created including the identity of the patient (name, age, sex), the mechanism or the circumstances of the accident, the type of injuries (cutaneous,
Results
One hundred fifty-six cases of scooter-related injuries in children were recorded in a period of 1 year in our institutions. Two patients were injured twice in different accidents. No scooter-related injuries were admitted until April 2000 when the first case appeared followed by an increasing number of accidents starting in the month of June. Fifty-one percent of the cases occurred in September and October 2000 (Fig 1).
Discussion
The first scooters appeared by the 1900s, and some of them were already foldable with inflatable or plain tires and brakes. No modification occurred until 1999, when a light-weight aluminium structure (less than 5 kg), foldable, “easy to carry and to store” vehicle made its appearance. Many of the injuries with this new type of scooter are related to the scooter structure itself. The synthetic low-friction wheels were borrowed from in-line rollerskates. These polyurethane 10-cm-diameter wheels
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