US academy warns of risks from shopping trolleys

doi:10.1136/bmj.333.7564.369-a

BMJ 2006;333:369 (19 August), doi:10.1136/bmj.333.7564.369-a

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US academy warns of risks from shopping trolleys

Doug Kamerow

Washington, DC

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More than 24 000 children in the United States were treatedin hospital emergency departments in 2005 as a result of injuriesfrom shopping trolleys, say a policy statement and technicalreport in the August issue of Pediatrics (2006;118:825-7 andwww.pediatrics.org/cgi/doi/10.1542/peds.2006-1217).

Seats for children are often at the highest point of the shopping trolley—maximising the distance in the event of a fall

Credit: BETH A KEISER/AP PHOTO

Eighty five per cent of injured children were under 5 yearsold, and the most common injury sites were the head and neck,says the report, by the American Academy of Pediatrics' injury,violence, and poison prevention committee. Fractures were themost common cause of admissions related to trolleys.

Falls from trolleys and trolleys tipping over are responsiblefor over 80% of injuries related to trolleys. Most trolleysare designed to hold children in the highest point of the trolley,. . . [Full text of this article]

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