Attention, parents: In case you need more worry for your children now, check out those coin-shaped batteries all over your house and the sets of small, extremely powerful magnets sold as desk toys.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has found that in just six months last year, the number of children treated in emergency departments for swallowing batteries rose 93%.
Meanwhile, researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus reported this month that in 2018 and 2019, the average number of calls to poison control centers for children exposed to the small magnets increased 444%. The study found a 355% increase in the number of cases that required hospital care.
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WASHINGTON, March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the way U.S. consumers live, work and go to school. A new report from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) released during National Consumer Protection week now shows an impact on hospital emergency room (ER)-treated injuries from consumer products, as well. The Effect of the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic on Preliminary NEISS Estimates, suggests that although consumers may have avoided the ER for some product-related injuries, they did go at nearly the same rate as the previous year for more severe injuries. The types of products causing injury displayed some marked increases and decreases, as well, highlighting new patterns of risk that may have arisen during the pandemic.
Dec 24, 2020
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) The number of sledding-related injuries has decreased in recent years, but the rate of injuries is still concerning, according to a study published online Dec. 14 in the
Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine.
Kris H.C. Evans, Ph.D., from the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and colleagues performed a retrospective analysis using data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System for children and adults who were treated for sledding-related injuries in emergency departments from 2008 to 2017.
The researchers found that an estimated 220,488 patients were treated in emergency departments for sledding-related injuries, with children accounting for 69.7 percent of the injuries. For children and adults, the injury rate decreased significantly during the study period. Fractures were the most common injury diagnosis for children and adults (23.9 and 27.4 percent, resp
Researchers recommend tips for children to stay safer while sledding
Sledding is a popular winter activity in communities across the country, but it may not be as risk-free as many people think. A new study conducted by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children s Hospital found that 220,488 patients were treated in U.S. emergency departments for injuries related to sledding from 2008 through 2017. Nearly 70% of these patients were children age 19 years and younger. Compared to adults, children were almost seven times as likely to be treated in an emergency department for a sledding-related injury.
The study, published in