Colorful balls of light and glittering sparks of sparkle against the dark night sky, exuberant people and the generational anticipation of a new year: Over the past few years, more than 130 million euros have been spent on private fireworks in Germany. Happy New Year's Eve celebrations, however, can end sobering, when in the truest sense of the word "something comes to mind". Every year, many people around the world suffer from eye damage from firecrackers. Dramatic is the high number of injured children, adolescents and uninvolved spectators described in various studies. How much risk of injury for us and others do we accept for this explosive New Year's Eve? While there is already a ban on private fireworks in individual European countries, there is still debate in the Federal Republic whether such a ban is not an unacceptable restriction on our personal freedom? The basis for this sociopolitical confrontation should be reliable data on the injury patterns and the resulting health damage of private fireworks. So far there was - unlike z. In the USA - frequency / incidence and risk profile are not nationwide. [Machine translation by Google.
Language: de
", language="de", issn="0941-293X", doi="10.1007/s00347-019-00997-3", url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00347-019-00997-3" }