About a fifth of patients in the study had intracranial haemorrhage, or bleeding beneath the skull, following an eScooter accident. — AFP
With the rising popularity of electric scooters, emergency rooms are seeing a lot of head injuries, many with vision-threatening damage to the eyes, a small study suggests.
Researchers from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) reviewed data on 34 patients treated in two UCSD emergency departments with facial injuries as a result of eScooter use between June 2018 and May 2019.
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