Sentences with phrase «related injuries to children»
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About 26,000 of these bicycle - related injuries to children and adolescents were traumatic brain injuries from not wearing a helmet.
In another study conducted from May through September 1999, a total of 6,348 stroller related injuries to children under 10 years old treated in U.S. hospital emergency rooms were reported through the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS).
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In this way, it is my goal to reduce the risk of concussions and related head injuries to the athletes that we care most about — our children.
In addition to educating young athletes about both the importance of hydration and the dangers of heat - related illness, ensuring that they drink enough fluids, and taking precautions to reduce the risk of heat injury in children in hot and humid weather, you need to watch your child for symptoms of impending heat illness:
In addition to educating young athletes about both the importance of hydration and the dangers of heat - related illness, ensuring that they drink enough fluids, and taking precautions to reduce the risk of heat injury in children, especially when they are exercising in hot and humid weather, parents and coaches need to watch children for signs and symptoms of impending heat illness:
Last year, more than 8,000 people in the United States (most of them children) received treatment at an emergency room for injuries related to fireworks.
According to statistics each year, more than 2.5 million children are treated in emergency rooms for fall - related injuries.
For 51 per cent of Canadians, «not allowing children under 10 to access the pool area» is their only strategy to prevent injuries related to backyard pools
The American Academy of Pediatrics reported that in 1999, an estimated 8800 children were treated in emergency rooms for injuries related to using baby walkers.
«Finding ways to decrease the incidence and severity of sports - related injuries is critical to keeping kids playing sports long - term and reaping the benefits that organized athletics provides,» said Dawn Comstock, PhD, a co-author of the study and assistant professor at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital.
While acknowledging that the [Canadian] study «highlighted a general misinterpretation that an injury described as a concussion is less severe than one described as mTBI,» and that it may result in a premature return to school and activity,» the American Academy of Pediatrics» 2010 clinical report on sports - related concussion in children and teens3 continues to refer to the injury as concussion.
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Soft plastic mouthguards can be used to protect a child's teeth, lips, cheeks and gums from sports - related injuries.
Some studies have found that around 20 % of children using baby walker had incidences leading to injuries related to the walkers.
The playground is the perfect place for these activities, but sometimes poorly maintained equipment can be downright dangerous: In 2012, more than 200,000 children were treated in hospital emergency rooms for injuries related to playground equipment.
This reality check, added to the fact that on average every six minutes a young child is treated in an emergency room for a stair - related injury, makes it fundamental for safety devices to be installed in the most critical parts of the home, first and foremost, the stairs.
According to a study carried out between 1990 and 2006, thermal burns caused by heat and fire accounted for nearly 60 % of all child injuries, with most of these accidents relating to kitchen appliances.
Balconies and windows According to statistics each year, more than 2.5 million children are treated in emergency rooms for fall - related injuries.
In general, the number of kids with unintentional injuries increases during the warmer months and an estimated 5,000 children are hospitalized due to unintentional drowning - related incidents each year.
An April 2007 Canadian study found that children receiving emergency room treatment for a head injury (HI) are nearly twice as likely to experience another HI requiring medical attention in the next six months compared to children who initially visited the ER for a non-head related injury.
more than 14,000 children under age 15 months have to go to the emergency room because of injuries related to using a baby walker each year
A recently published study by researchers in the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital is the first to compare and describe the occurrence and distribution patterns of basketball - related injuries treated in emergency departments and the high school athletic training setting among adolescents and teens.
Our new research shows that every day in the U.S., an average of 24 children are treated in an emergency department for an injury related to either a high chair or chair booster seat — that is one child every hour.
A newly published study by researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital has found that the number of children treated in U.S. emergency rooms due to gate - related injuries more than tripled sinChildren's Hospital has found that the number of children treated in U.S. emergency rooms due to gate - related injuries more than tripled sinchildren treated in U.S. emergency rooms due to gate - related injuries more than tripled since 1990.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) reports that over 4,000 children are treated in emergency rooms each year for injuries related to falls from windows.
Looking at the statistics, according to Shital N. Parikh, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Cincinnati Children's Hospital medical Center found a total of 43,562 car seat - related injuries from 2003 to 2007.
Emergency department visits for ice hockey - related injuries among U.S. children aged 9 to 14 soared from 2,935 in 1990 to 7,713 in 2006 — an increase of 163 percent, researchers have found.
On average, one child dies each year from stroller - related injuries according to data from 2007 - 2009.
A 1998 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study points out that children four and under are particularly susceptible to fire - related injuries and deaths.
According to a 2013 study from Nationwide Children's Hospital, the majority of high chair - related injuries happened when a child was not using the chair according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Soft plastic mouthguards can be used to protect a child's teeth, lips, cheeks and gums from sport related injuries.
The agenda must address universal health - care coverage, access and affordability; end preventable maternal, new - born and child deaths and malnutrition ensure the protection, promotion and support of exclusive breastfeeding for six months and continued breastfeeding with adequate complementary feeding for 2 years and beyond ensure the availability of essential medicines; realize women's reproductive health and rights; ensure immunization coverage; eradicate malaria and realize the vision of a future free of AIDS and tuberculosis; reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases, including mental illness, nervous system injuries and road accidents; and promote healthy behaviours, including those related to breastfeeding, water, sanitation and hygiene.
Every 3 minutes a child goes to the ER for a toy - related injury, according to a new study.
But there is a serious side to toys; each year, millions of children are treated in emergency rooms for toy - related injuries, and tragedy can result from poor choices of toys or -LSB-...]
«The Braden QD Scale provides acute care pediatric clinicians with one instrument to predict both immobility - and device - related pressure injuries across diverse age and clinical populations,» says lead - author Martha A. Q. Curley, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Ruth M. Colket Endowed Chair in Pediatric Nursing at Penn Nursing and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
The Sioux had had many injuries related to kids riding in the front seats of cars, so the program installed children's car seats.
As states relaxed laws related to fireworks sales during the past decade, emergency doctors saw an increase in both the number of fireworks related injuries among children and the severity of those injuries, according to new research being presented at the Pediatrics Academic Societies 2016 Meeting.
Children and young people admitted to hospital in England with injuries related to self - harming, drugs or alcohol faced an increased risk of killing themselves over the following 10 years, according to new research.
A new study by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital examined data relating to children age 3 years and younger who were treated in U.S. emergency departments from 2003 through 2010 for high chair - related iChildren's Hospital examined data relating to children age 3 years and younger who were treated in U.S. emergency departments from 2003 through 2010 for high chair - related ichildren age 3 years and younger who were treated in U.S. emergency departments from 2003 through 2010 for high chair - related injuries.
Regions of the United States with the strictest gun laws also have the fewest emergency department visits for pediatric firearm - related injuries, according to a new study by Children's National Health System researchers.
Researchers examining pediatric firearm injuries found that the age a child is injured by a gun is closely related to where he or she lives: the city or the country.
«Future research work should seek to elucidate the association of specific gun laws with the incidence rates of pediatric firearm - related injuries,» says Shilpa Patel, M.D., M.P.H., an assistant professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at Children's National and co-author of the poster.
These findings, the study authors say, suggest that stricter gun laws might lead to fewer fatalities as well as fewer gun - related injuries among children.
But while young athletes are susceptible to the ankle sprains, wrist fractures and other acute injuries that are common among competitors of all ages, numerous studies indicate that approximately half of the sports - related injuries among children and adolescents in this country are caused by overuse.
In a first - of - its - kind study, researchers at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital (UH Rainbow) found injuries related to legal interventions, or contact with law enforcement, involving male teenagers is not an uncommon occurrence in the United States.
Recent estimates suggest that as many as 1.9 million children younger than 18 years have a sport - or recreation - related concussion each year in the United States.1 This injury is biomechanically induced, with symptoms resulting from neuronal dysfunction due to functional and neurometabolic alterations rather than gross structural abnormalities.2 Compared with boys involved in similar activities, girls experience higher rates of sport - related concussion,3 - 7 report more severe symptoms,8 - 11 demonstrate worse cognitive impairment,8 - 10, 12 and take longer to recover.11 The neural mechanisms behind these postconcussion sex differences are poorly understood but have been attributed to differences in neuroanatomy and physiology, 13 cerebral blood flow, 14 and the female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone.15 - 17
IPCC [26] projects the following trends, if global warming continue to increase, where only trends assigned very high confidence or high confidence are included: (i) increased malnutrition and consequent disorders, including those related to child growth and development, (ii) increased death, disease and injuries from heat waves, floods, storms, fires and droughts, (iii) increased cardio - respiratory morbidity and mortality associated with ground - level ozone.
About 10,000 infants, most of them younger than four months of age, are treated in US ERs each year because of car seat - related injuries unrelated to car accidents: falling out of a seat because they were not properly strapped in; falling with the seat from an elevated surface such as a kitchen counter; seats accidentally tipped over by an adult or older child; older infants wiggling sufficiently — even when properly strapped in — to topple the seat over.
GM is unaware of any crashes or injuries related to this condition, but advises customers to not allow small children in the front seat until the vehicle is serviced.