Fireworks-related burns requiring hospital stays skyrocket among kids

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/aaop-fbr042216.php

Public Release: 30-Apr-2016
Fireworks-related burns requiring hospital stays skyrocket among kids
New research being presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies 2016 Meeting shows loosening US laws that let people buy pyrotechnics at younger ages is tied to increased incidence and severity of fireworks-related burns in children
American Academy of Pediatrics

As states relaxed laws related to fireworks sales during the past decade, emergency doctors saw an increase in both the number of fireworks related injuries among children and the severity of those injuries, according to new research being presented at the Pediatrics Academic Societies 2016 Meeting.

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They determined the number of patients under age 21 treated and released by emergency departments between 2006 and 2012 rose modestly. Significantly larger increases were seen in injuries requiring inpatient hospital admission, which skyrocketed from 29 percent of cases in 2006 to 50 percent in 2012.

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