Sentences with phrase «related visits to the emergency room»

According to the American Family Physician, dog bite wounds are also responsible for one percent of all injury - related visits to the emergency room.

Not exact matches

According to the CPSC, thousands of kids visit the emergency room to be treated for injuries related to falls from shopping carts.

From 2005 to 2011, energy drink - related emergency - room visits rose from 1,494 to 20,783.

Over 270,000 Americans are expected to visit hospital emergency rooms after suffering winter sports - related injuries this 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.

In fact, according to the American Association of Pediatrics, there were more than 8,000 visits to emergency rooms due to injuries related to using a walker.

This suggests that the state's sports - related concussion law has helped to improve the evaluation and detection of such injuries among high school students, by increasing obligatory emergency room visits.

Stephanie Condon of CBS News wrote in her article (dated May 29, 2014) that young people account for around 250,000 emergency room visits annually due to sport or recreation - related head injuries.

Schumer says that federal statistics show 2,300 emergency room visits in a two - month period were related to synthetic marijuana use and that poison control center calls about the drug are surging around the nation.

In 2011, the use of bath salts was responsible for over 20,000 emergency room visits in the US and poisonings and deaths related to use have been occurring at large dance festivals.

«The study reports asthma related emergency room visits are estimated to be 55 percent lower in people with asthma who use dose counting inhalers than in those who use inhalers without dose counters,» said allergist Allen Meadows, MD, ACAAI fellow and chair of the Public Education Committee.

By analyzing tweets and air quality information together, Ram and her collaborators were able to use machine learning algorithms to predict with 75 percent accuracy whether the emergency room could expect a low, medium or high number of asthma - related visits on a given day.

She and her team hope that their findings will help them create similar predictive models for emergency room visits related to other chronic conditions, such as diabetes.

A UA - led team of researchers created a model that was able to predict with 75 percent accuracy how many asthma - related emergency room visits a hospital could expect on a given day.

Children were assessed for asthma symptoms — including but not limited to cough without a cold, inability to speak full sentences due to asthma and disrupted sleep — asthma - related health care use (acute care visits, emergency room visits or hospitalizations in three months prior to each assessment), asthma medication use and maximal symptoms days, defined as the highest number of days that the child had three different types of asthma symptoms in the two weeks prior to the visit or phone call.

One study, for example, found that states where marijuana is decriminalized had more emergency room visits related to marijuana and fewer visits linked to alcohol and other drugs.

Though the health - related effects of air pollution disproportionately figured into the economic losses, Hall and Brajer also found that emergency room visits, work and school absences and several additional factors contributed to the high costs.

He never went to see a doctor with the exception of a couple of emergency room visits for other problems (nothing heart related) Will the insurance company (Gerber) try to deny this claim?

The company's health insurance products consist of accidental injury insurance which provides benefits if insured is injured or dies from an accident; cancer insurance which assists in paying costs related to cancer treatment and recovery; critical illness insurance which offers lump - sum benefits upon the diagnosis of a critical illnesses, such as cancer, heart attack, stroke and kidney failure; heart / stroke insurance which pays indemnity benefits for a range of treatments, services and expenses in the event of a heart attack or stroke; hospital insurance which helps pay costs associated with hospital care, including emergency room visits; and Medicare supplement which protects against the expenses not paid by Medicare.

More than 100,000 emergency room visits every year are attributed to ATV - related accidents and injuries.

Topics for transcription can include medical histories and discharge summaries, and correspondence related to physical exams, emergency room visits and surgeries.

Researchers had found that a higher number of foreclosures in Arizona, California, Florida, and New Jersey were found to coincide with a rise of stress - related health problems in those states, including an increase in the number of hospital visits for preventable conditions and increase in emergency room visits and hospitalizations for hypertension.