Downhill Skiing Injuries in Lapland, Sweden : A Survey Including Alcohol Monitoring and One-Year Follow-up / C. Made, L-G Elmqvist

Conference Author:: Skiing Trauma and Safety: Tenth Volume (10th : 1993 : Zell am See, Austria)
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (6 pages) : illustrations, figures, tables
Additional Creators:: Made, C., Elmqvist, L-G, American Society for Testing and Materials, and ASTM International

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In T¿̐ưrnaby/Hemavan, a ski area in Lapland/Sweden, all downhill skiing-injured patients examined at the local medical facility, T¿̐ưrnaby Sjukstuga, were registered 1990¿̐ư92. A questionnaire was filled out, the patients' expiration breath was tested by an Alcolmeter SD-2¿̐ư, and a one-year follow-up was performed by questionnaire. Four hundred eighty-one patients (59% male), mean age 22.9, were included. Injured parts of the body were knee 28%, lower leg and head 10.8%, thumb 8.3%, and forearm 8.1%. The most common diagnoses were fractures 23.6% and knee sprains 23.2%. Classification according to the abbreviated injury scale (AIS) 1 to 5 resulted in 95% as 1¿̐ư2, 5% as 3¿̐ư4; one skier had an AIS of 5. On the day of accident 1.1% had used alcohol compared to 5% in a control group of 60 noninjured skiers. The one-year follow-up questionnaire was answered by 58%; 29% of the respondents had symptoms.

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Volume 1996, Issue 1266 (January 1996)

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9780803155602 (e-ISBN)
9780803104297
0803104294

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