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Terrain Park Injuries

BACKGROUND: This study examined demographics, injury pattern, and hospital outcome in patients injured in winter resort terrain parks. METHODS: The study included patients ≥12 years of age who presented to a regional trauma center with an acute injury sustained at a winter resort. Emergency departme...

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Autores principales: Moffat, Craig, McIntosh, Scott, Bringhurst, Jade, Danenhauer, Karen, Gilmore, Nathan, Hopkins, Christy L.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2791729/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20046245
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author Moffat, Craig
McIntosh, Scott
Bringhurst, Jade
Danenhauer, Karen
Gilmore, Nathan
Hopkins, Christy L.
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McIntosh, Scott
Bringhurst, Jade
Danenhauer, Karen
Gilmore, Nathan
Hopkins, Christy L.
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description BACKGROUND: This study examined demographics, injury pattern, and hospital outcome in patients injured in winter resort terrain parks. METHODS: The study included patients ≥12 years of age who presented to a regional trauma center with an acute injury sustained at a winter resort. Emergency department (ED) research assistants collected patient injury and helmet use information using a prospectively designed questionnaire. ED and hospital data were obtained from trauma registry and hospital records. RESULTS: Seventy-two patients were injured in a terrain park, and 263 patients were injured on non-terrain park slopes. Patients injured in terrain parks were more likely to be male [68/72 (94%) vs. 176/263 (67%), p<0.0001], younger in age [23 ± 7 vs. 36 ± 17, p<0.0001], live locally [47/72 (65%) vs. 124/263 (47%), p=0.006], use a snowboard [50/72 (69%) vs. 91/263 (35%), p<0.0001], hold a season pass [46/66 (70%) vs. 98/253 (39%), p<0.0001], and sustain an upper extremity injury [29/72 (40%) vs. 52/263 (20%), p<0.001] when compared to patients injured on non-terrain park slopes. There were no differences between the groups in terms of EMS transport to hospital, helmet use, admission rate, hospital length of stay, and patients requiring specialty consultation in the ED. CONCLUSIONS: Patients injured in terrain parks represent a unique demographic within winter resort patrons. Injury severity appears to be similar to those patients injured on non-terrain park slopes.
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spelling pubmed-27917292009-12-31 Terrain Park Injuries Moffat, Craig McIntosh, Scott Bringhurst, Jade Danenhauer, Karen Gilmore, Nathan Hopkins, Christy L. West J Emerg Med Trauma/Critical Care BACKGROUND: This study examined demographics, injury pattern, and hospital outcome in patients injured in winter resort terrain parks. METHODS: The study included patients ≥12 years of age who presented to a regional trauma center with an acute injury sustained at a winter resort. Emergency department (ED) research assistants collected patient injury and helmet use information using a prospectively designed questionnaire. ED and hospital data were obtained from trauma registry and hospital records. RESULTS: Seventy-two patients were injured in a terrain park, and 263 patients were injured on non-terrain park slopes. Patients injured in terrain parks were more likely to be male [68/72 (94%) vs. 176/263 (67%), p<0.0001], younger in age [23 ± 7 vs. 36 ± 17, p<0.0001], live locally [47/72 (65%) vs. 124/263 (47%), p=0.006], use a snowboard [50/72 (69%) vs. 91/263 (35%), p<0.0001], hold a season pass [46/66 (70%) vs. 98/253 (39%), p<0.0001], and sustain an upper extremity injury [29/72 (40%) vs. 52/263 (20%), p<0.001] when compared to patients injured on non-terrain park slopes. There were no differences between the groups in terms of EMS transport to hospital, helmet use, admission rate, hospital length of stay, and patients requiring specialty consultation in the ED. CONCLUSIONS: Patients injured in terrain parks represent a unique demographic within winter resort patrons. Injury severity appears to be similar to those patients injured on non-terrain park slopes. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2009-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2791729/ /pubmed/20046245 Text en Copyright © 2009 the authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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