Nursery Product-Related Injuries Treated in United States Emergency Departments
OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to determine the epidemiology of injuries associated with nursery products among young children treated in US emergency departments. METHODS: Data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System were retrospectively analyzed for patients aged RESULTS: An estimated 1 391 844 (95% confidence interval, 1 169 489–1 614 199) nursery product–related injuries among children aged CONCLUSIONS: Although successful injury prevention efforts with baby walkers led to a decline in nursery product–related injuries from 1991 to 2003, the number and rate of these injuries have been increasing since 2003. Greater efforts are warranted to prevent injuries associated with other nursery products, especially baby carriers, cribs, and strollers. Prevention of falls and concussions/closed head injuries associated with nursery products also deserves special attention.
This article gives a profound consideration to the problem of medical equipment maintenance socialization,its connotation,form and existing questions,in the present system.The author holds that the medical equipment mainteˉnance service market will gradually extend,but the role of maintenance personnel affiliated to the hospital is still very important.Dismissing maintenance personnel in the hospital will face a lot of questions,and it is disadvantageous to the hospital in its development and construction.All kinds of hospitals are different from each other in their circumstance,so it shouldn't take only one model in resolving the problem.