TITLE:
Unpowered Scooter-Related Injuries among Adolescents and Adults in the United States 2007-2017
AUTHORS:
Mercy Wakili Isichei, Alexander Femi Ale, Michael Ayedima Misauno, Pamela Brown, Nicholas Dean Soulakis
KEYWORDS:
Unpowered, Scooter, Injuries, Adolescents, Adults
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Emergency Medicine,
Vol.8 No.1,
March
3,
2020
ABSTRACT: United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) reported a 700% increase in Emergency Department (ED) visits for injuries attributed to unpowered scooter use from January through October 2000. Our objective is to investigate injuries associated with the use of unpowered scooters among adolescents from the age of >9 years to 20 years in the National Electronic Injury Surveillance Study (NEISS) data set from 2007-2017. We analyzed unpowered scooter-related injuries in the NEISS data set using variables: SCOOTER, INJURED, AFTER, OFF, AT and IN; the product code for injuries related to unpowered scooters is 1329, and age ≥9 years and 9 - 19 -