TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - Preventing selfie-related incidents: taking a public health approach to reduce unnecessary burden on emergency medicine services
JO  - Emergency medicine Australasia
A1  - Cornell, S.
A1  - Brander, R.W.
A1  - Peden, Amy Elizabeth
SP  - 691
EP  - 693
VL  - 35
IS  - 4
N2  - Unintentional deaths from selfies have received limited exposure in emergency medicine literature; yet trauma remains the leading cause of death and disability in children and young adults, and most of those implicated in a selfie incident are in this demographic. Selfie-related injuries and deaths may be a relatively new phenomenon, but data suggest they are a public health hazard that is not going away. Emergency medicine practitioners may have a role to play in the primary and secondary prevention of selfie incidents, including delivering opportunistic behaviour change messaging to those who are at risk of being injured or killed in a selfie-related incident, particularly young (14-25 years) males. Emergency medicine specialists should be aware of the dangers of selfie-related incidents and understand their polytraumatic presentation. <p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1742-6731
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1742-6723.14219
ID  - ref1
ER  -