ATV-related head and neck injuries among kids still too common

Columbus, OH — Nonfatal head and neck injuries related to all-terrain vehicles sent an average of 31 children – nearly half younger than 12 – to U.S. emergency rooms each day over a recent 25-year period, results of a recent Nationwide Children’s Hospital study show. Researchers from the hospital’s Center for Injury Research and Policy and the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery reviewed 1990-2014 data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System. They found that an estimated 279,391 patients younger than 18 had received emergency treatment for ATV-related head and n ... Read more

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