Electric scooters behind rash of visits to hospital EDs, study indicates
USA Today (1/25, Woodyard) reported, “Electric scooters are behind a rash of visits to hospital emergency” departments (EDs), researchers concluded. A study published online in JAMA Network Open revealed that “more electric scooter riders showed up with injuries in the emergency” departments “of two hospitals on Los Angeles’ scooter-heavy Westside than either bicyclists or pedestrians.” Among the patients admitted “some 40.2 percent” had “head injuries,” and 31.7 percent had fractures.
