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Home Fire Safety Practices and Smoke Detector Program Awareness in an Urban Pediatric Emergency Department Population.
Rachel Wood,Stephen J. Teach,Alexandra C. Rucker,Ambika Lall,James M. Chamberlain,Leticia Manning Ryan +5 more
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There is limited awareness of community-based resources but high rates of interest in participating once informed once informed in this urban pediatric ED population, and other fire safety practices are suboptimal.Abstract:
ObjectivesRisk factors for residential fire death (young age, minority race/ethnicity, and low socioeconomic status) are common among urban pediatric emergency department (ED) patients. Community-based resources are available in our region to provide free smoke detector installation. The objective oread more
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Epidemiology and Outcome Analysis of 470 Patients with Hand Burns: A Five-Year Retrospective Study in a Major Burn Center in Southwest China.
Mian Liu,Haijie Zhu,Rongshuai Yan,Jiacai Yang,Rixing Zhan,Xunzhou Yu,Xiaohong Hu,Xiaorong Zhang,Gaoxing Luo,Wei Qian +9 more
TL;DR: The findings suggest that in Southwest China, prevention programs for children aged 0–9 years, injuries occurring in winter and non-workplace sites, and fire burns were imperative.
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Carbon monoxide detector effectiveness in reducing poisoning, Wisconsin 2014–2016
TL;DR: Individuals who were exposed to CO in the absence of aCO detector were more likely to be poisoned and to have more severe medical outcomes than those that had a CO detector that alarmed.
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Cross-sectional study of carbon monoxide alarm use in patients attending the emergency department: a multicentre survey protocol
TL;DR: The most common place for unintentional, non-fire-related carbon monoxide exposure to occur is in the home, but this is preventable if CO producing sources are properly maintained and CO alarms/detectors are in use as discussed by the authors .
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Community/Public Health Nurses’ Awareness of Residential High-Rise Fire Safety issues
Gary Glauberman,Kristine Qureshi +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, high-rise (HR) building fires remain a tragic cause of preventable injury and death in the United States and recent incidences of HR building fires have served as high-profile reminders of the persist...
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