@article{ref1,
title="Epidemiology of skydiving-related deaths and injuries: a 10-years prospective study  of 6.2 million jumps between 2010 and 2019 in France",
journal="Journal of science and medicine in sport",
year="2020",
author="Fer, Caroline and Guiavarch, Michel and Edouard, Pascal",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: To analyse the data on skydiving deaths and injuries collected  prospectively by the French Parachuting Federation (FFP) between 2010 and 2019. <br><br>DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. <br><br>METHODS: Data on number of skydiving deaths and  injuries were collected prospectively between January 2010 and December 2019, among  all skydivers licensed to the FFP, via a standardised report form that included the  skydiver's sex and level of experience (classified as tandem, student, or  experienced), deaths, injuries, and injury location. The number of licensees, jumps,  skydiving deaths and injuries were analysed descriptively and expressed as rates per  100,000 jumps and per 1000 skydivers with 95% confidence intervals (95%CI). <br><br>RESULTS:  Among the almost 6.2 million jumps performed by 519,620 skydivers over 10 years  between 2010 and 2019, 35 deaths and 3015 injuries were reported, corresponding to  0.57 deaths (95%CI 0.38 to 0.75) and 49 injuries (95%CI 47.0 to 50.1) per 100,000  jumps. Male skydivers had a five times higher deaths rate than women (RR=4.8, 95%CI  1.5 to 15.6). There was no death in tandem skydivers. Student skydivers had a six  times higher risk of injuries than experienced skydivers (RR=6.1, 95%CI 5.7 to 6.6)  and tandem skydivers had a significant lower risk of injuries than experienced  skydivers (RR=0.07, 95%CI 0.06 to 0.08). 83.3% of the injuries occurred during the  landing phase and 64.3% concerned the lower limb. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: This large survey  shows that the highest risk of death concerned experienced and male skydivers, and  the highest risk of injuries concerned student skydivers. It also shows the safety  of tandem skydiving. These results can be of help to develop skydiving-related  deaths and injuries risk reduction strategies, and thus improve the global skydiving  safety and the skydivers' health.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1440-2440",
doi="10.1016/j.jsams.2020.11.002",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2020.11.002"
}