ArticleMedicina oral, patologia oral y cirugia bucal2023
Urban drinking and driving: comparison of electric scooter and bicycle related accidents in facial fracture patients.
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- Comparing the characteristics of electric scooter and bicycle injuries: a retrospective cohort study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Changes in e-scooter related maxillofacial injuries following legislative measures in Helsinki, Finland.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The epidemiology of alcohol involved facial injuries.Oral and maxillofacial surgery · 2025Article
- Configurational pathways to pediatric e-bike injury severity: an fsQCA study of global evidence.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The Impact of Standing Electric Scooters on Maxillofacial Fractures: An Italian Multi-Centric Epidemiological Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Eye and Orbit Injuries Caused by Electric Scooters and Hoverboards in the United States.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2024Article
- Characteristics of E-Scooter-Related Maxillofacial Injuries over 2019-2022-Retrospective Study from Poznan, Poland.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn recent years, electric scooters (e-scooter) have emerged as an alternative mode of urban transport due to their availability and effortless use. However, e-scooter-related trauma and injuries, especially to the head, have received wide media coverage and raised public concern about their safety. We aim to determine and compare clinically relevant variables, incidence, and severity between bicycle and e-scooter-related facial fractures and potential protective measures for injury prevention. MATERIAL AND
methodsThis retrospective study comprised all patients admitted to a tertiary trauma center with bicycle or e-scooter-related facial fractures between January 2019 and October 2020. Patient- and injury-related variables, including demographics, injury mechanisms, helmet use, influence of alcohol, types of facial injuries, types of other injuries, given treatment, and hospital stay, were collected, analysed, and compared between bicycle and e-scooter injuries.
resultsAltogether 169 patients with facial fractures, 124 bicycle-related injuries (73.4%) and 45 e-scooter-related injuries (26.6%) were included. Alcohol involvement was significantly higher in e-scooter patients (88.9%) than in bicycle patients (31.5%) (p<0.001). Driving under the influence of alcohol was associated with driving without a helmet in both groups (p<0.001). In multivariate analyses, e-scooter accidents were 18 times more likely to occur under the influence of alcohol (OR 17.85, p<0.001) and were more likely to involve collision with a stationary object (OR 3.81, p=0.028). E-scooter patients were significantly younger (OR 0.95, p<0.001) and had significantly more cranial fractures (OR 10.15, p=0.014) than bicycle patients.
conclusionsCompared with patients in bicycle accidents, facial fracture patients injured in e-scooter accidents are younger, are more likely under the influence of alcohol, and sustain more severe craniofacial skeleton fractures. Our results for both groups of patients advocate stricter adherence to helmet and road safety legislation as well as public education for injury prevention.
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