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Cureus
July 2024
Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Riverside Community Hospital, Riverside, USA.
Introduction This study investigates the changes in bicycle-related injury rates between 2017 and 2021. We focus specifically on changes in age demographics, and the most common diagnoses and body parts injured. Methods We queried the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) for injuries associated with bicycles from 2017 to 2021.
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July 2021
Department of Critical Care Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China.
Background: To present the new trends in epidemiology of road traffic injuries (RTIs) during the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Suzhou.
Methods: Pre-hospital records of RTIs from January to May in 2020 and the same period in 2019 were obtained from the database of Suzhou pre-hospital emergency center, Jiangsu, China. Data were extracted for analysis, including demographic characteristics, pre-hospital vital signs, transport, shock index, consciousness, pre-hospital death.
J Oral Maxillofac Surg
February 2020
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ.
Purpose: As bicycling popularity grows in the United States, it becomes increasingly important to understand and characterize bicycle-related injuries. In this study, we sought to characterize craniofacial injuries in adult cyclists and to evaluate trends in injuries over the past 10 years.
Materials And Methods: In this retrospective cohort study, the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System was queried for bicycle-related craniofacial injuries in adults aged 18 to 64 years from January 1, 2008, to December 31, 2017.
Traffic Inj Prev
July 2020
a Department of Urology , University of California San Francisco, San Francisco , California.
Cycling is associated with numerous health benefits but also the risk of traumatic injury. Recent data demonstrate an increase in overall cycling injuries as well as hospital admissions from 1997 to 2013 in the United States. We seek to better understand the causes of the increase in cycling injuries and hospital admissions.
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December 2015
The Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Critical Care, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Electronic address:
Introduction: As bicycling has become more popular, admissions after bicycle trauma are on the rise. The impact of alcohol use on bicycle trauma has not been well studied. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of alcohol intoxication on injury burden following bicycle-related crashes.
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