@article{ref1,
title="Electric scooters as a silent source of danger in increasing use among young people: a single-center in-depth accident analysis",
journal="Ulusal travma ve acil cerrahi dergisi",
year="2023",
author="Demir, Necdet and Dokur, Mehmet and Agdoğan, Özgür and Koc, Suna and Karadağ, Mehmet and Dokur, İbrahim Fikri",
volume="29",
number="5",
pages="596-604",
abstract="BACKGROUND: The reasons for the increase in accidents involving shared stand-up e-scooters in recent years may be the wide-spread use of e-scooters among young people, especially in metropolitan areas with heavy traffic, non-compliance with traffic rules, and insufficient legal regulations. In this study, we analyzed in detail the typical features of rider-sharing e-scooter-related injuries brought to the emergency department of our hospital in the light of current literature. <br><br>METHODS: The clinical and accident characteristics of 60 patients with surgical requirements who were brought to the emergency department of our hospital due to e-scooter-related accidents between 2020 and 2020 were analyzed using statistical methods ret-rospectively. <br><br>RESULTS: The majority of the victims were university students and the number of victims of the male gender was slightly higher and the mean age was 25.3±13.0 years. Most e-scooter accidents occur on weekdays. Most of the e-scooter-related accidents happen on weekdays and are non-collision type accidents. The majority of e-scooter-related accident victims were in the minor trauma group (injury severity score <9), predominantly had extremity and soft-tissue injuries and needed radiological examination (44 patients, 73.3%), and only eight victims (13.3%) required surgical operation and also all of the e-scooter victims were discharged fully healed. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Among the more common collision-free e-scooter-related accidents that have a lower trauma severity score or cause minor soft-tissue injury, mono-trauma occurs more commonly than multisystem trauma; likewise, radius and nasal-weighted monofractures occur more commonly than multiple fractures, according to this study. Besides, effective measures and legal regulations should be put in place to prevent e-scooter-related accidents.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1306-696X",
doi="10.14744/tjtes.2023.15507",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.14744/tjtes.2023.15507"
}