TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Electronic cigarette explosion and burn injuries, US Emergency Departments 2015-2017
JO  - Tobacco control
A1  - Rossheim, Matthew E.
A1  - Livingston, Melvin D.
A1  - Soule, Eric K.
A1  - Zeraye, Helen A.
A1  - Thombs, Dennis L.
SP  - 472
EP  - 474
VL  - 28
IS  - 4
N2  - BACKGROUND: Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) battery failure can result in explosions and burn injuries. Previous attempts to quantify these events has been limited to compilations of case studies, federal agency reports and media reports. Although e-cigarette explosions and burn injuries are thought to be rare, current surveillance methods likely underestimate actual occurrences. <br><br>METHODS: Analyses were conducted on cross-sectional data from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC) National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS). A keyword search of case narrative text was used to identify e-cigarette-related explosion and burn injuries presenting to US emergency departments from 2015 to 2017. Sampling weights were applied to make conservative national incidence estimates. <br><br>RESULTS: From 2015 to 2017, there were an estimated 2035 e-cigarette explosion and burn injuries presenting to US hospital emergency departments (95% CI 1107 to 2964). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: There are more e-cigarette explosion and burn injuries in the USA than estimated in the past reports. Improved surveillance of e-cigarette injuries and regulation of e-cigarette devices is urgently needed. NEISS could be a valuable resource for e-cigarette injury surveillance.<br><br>© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2018. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0964-4563
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2018-054518
ID  - ref1
ER  -