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Helmet use reduces skull fractures in hospitalised skiers and snowboarders

 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead
New research has found that fewer children suffered fractured skulls, if they were wearing helmets when they sustained a head injury while skiing or snowboarding. The researchers, from the University of Vermont, reviewed 6 years of data from head-injured skiers and snowboarders at trauma centres in New England. Of the 57 children identified who sustained a head injury while skiing or snowboarding, 33.3% were wearing a helmet at the time of injury. In all, 5.3% of these children sustained a skull fracture compared with 36.8% of those not wearing a helmet....Although there was a favourable trend in those wearing a helmet, there was no significant difference in the incidence of bleeding in the brain between the two groups of patients. There were also no significant differences between the two groups in terms of need for neurosurgical intervention or for admission to an intensive care unit, total length of stay, percentage discharged home or incidence of cervical spine injury.

Abstract: http://thejns.org/doi/abs/10.3171/2010.12.PEDS10415?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3dpubmed
Citation: Rughani AI et al. Helmet use and reduction in skull fractures in skiers and snowboarders admitted to the hospital. Neurosurg Pediatr 2011; 7: 268-71.

An editorial in the British Medical Journal this month discussed the pros and cons of wearing a helmet while skiing and snowboarding, and pointed out that 15% of neurosurgeons in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria bought a helmet after a fatal collision involving a German politician, possibly as a result of the media coverage.

See: http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d857.full?sid=33ecfa02-a534-41ee-8f7e-8ec2a4cb9725
Citation: Ruedle G et al. The protective effects of helmets in skiers and snowboarders. BMJ 2011; 342: d857.
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
I wear a helmet and instinctively think they must do some good; but this research involves such a small sample of kids that it doesn't really prove anything. Any snowhead epidemiologists out there, willing to conduct some proper research into this?
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Survey shows helmet reduces head injuries

Also today in the news bears do their business in the woods Cool
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A third of traffic accidents are caused by drunk drivers.
Therefore it's the sober two thirds that are the problem. rolling eyes
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 Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
el Hen, My helmet has certainly saved one of my eyes and possibly my life too. I have no idea what happened to cause my accident or what or where it actually happened, but I now always wear a helmet just in case they try and get me again! Cool
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3 falls this year that would have been very much worse without a helmet, the last one was being taken out by a boarder just off a chair lift and being knocked backwards and hitting someone's boots with my head - that would have been very very much worse than the uncomfortable bashed feeling I actually had which took a while to go away
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 Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo not another helmet thread
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