66 children hospitalized each day with shopping cart injuries

[DigitalDrifter]

Lets ban shopping carts, this is unacceptable to have shopping carts sending our children to the hospital.

Shopping cart injuries send 66 kids to nation’s ERs each day, study finds

Every 22 minutes in the U.S., an injury from a shopping cart sends a child to the emergency room, according to new research that finds voluntary safety standards fail to protect kids in the grocery store.Between 1990 and 2011, about 530,500 children under age 15 were hospitalized due to a shopping cart-related injury, which translates to more than 24,000 children a year, or 66 children each day, according to the*new study*by Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, published in the January issue of the journal Clinical Pediatrics.Dr. Michael Ross, a pediatrician at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, urged parents to exercise caution when placing children in shopping carts.“While we aren’t seeing the same injury rate as suggested in the study in our area, about every six months or so I see patients that have had a fall from a shopping cart related incident,” Ross said in a press release about the new research.Falls from a shopping cart accounted for the majority of injuries, about 70 percent, followed by running into or falling over a cart, carts tipping over, and getting body parts trapped in a cart.The most commonly injured body part was the head. While soft-tissue injuries were the most common type of head injury, the annual rate of concussions and internal head injuries rose by more than 200 percent over the study period, to 12,333 in 2011. Most of the increase, which occurred despite the implementation of voluntary shopping cart safety standards in 2004, was associated with children under age four.“The findings from our study show that the current voluntary standards for shopping cart safety are not adequate,” Dr. Gary Smith, director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, said in a news release. “Not only have the overall number of child injuries associated with shopping carts not decreased since implementation of the safety standards, but the number of concussions and closed head injuries is actually increasing. It is time we take action to protect our children by strengthening shopping cart safety standards with requirements that will more effectively prevent tip-overs and falls from shopping carts.”The study’s authors suggested improving restraint systems, placing shopping cart child seats closer to the floor, educating parents about shopping cart safety, and encouraging stores to have their employees promote the use of cart safety belts.“The best advice I can give parents is simply that observation alone can prevent these types of falls,” EMMC’s Ross said. “It’s especially important to be vigilant about watching infants in car seats that are placed in shopping carts.”Other tips for preventing shopping cart-related injuries from Nationwide Children’s Hospital:• Whenever possible, choose alternatives to placing your child in a shopping cart.• Always use the shopping cart safety straps. Be sure your child is snugly secured in the straps and that the child’s legs are placed through the leg openings. If parts of the cart restraint system are missing or not working, choose another cart.• Use a cart that has a child seat low to the ground, if one is available.• Make sure your child remains seated.

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[bodecea]

Lets ban shopping carts, this is unacceptable to have shopping carts sending our children to the hospital.

Shopping cart injuries send 66 kids to nation’s ERs each day, study finds

Every 22 minutes in the U.S., an injury from a shopping cart sends a child to the emergency room, according to new research that finds voluntary safety standards fail to protect kids in the grocery store.Between 1990 and 2011, about 530,500 children under age 15 were hospitalized due to a shopping cart-related injury, which translates to more than 24,000 children a year, or 66 children each day, according to the*new study*by Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, published in the January issue of the journal Clinical Pediatrics.Dr. Michael Ross, a pediatrician at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, urged parents to exercise caution when placing children in shopping carts.“While we aren’t seeing the same injury rate as suggested in the study in our area, about every six months or so I see patients that have had a fall from a shopping cart related incident,” Ross said in a press release about the new research.Falls from a shopping cart accounted for the majority of injuries, about 70 percent, followed by running into or falling over a cart, carts tipping over, and getting body parts trapped in a cart.The most commonly injured body part was the head. While soft-tissue injuries were the most common type of head injury, the annual rate of concussions and internal head injuries rose by more than 200 percent over the study period, to 12,333 in 2011. Most of the increase, which occurred despite the implementation of voluntary shopping cart safety standards in 2004, was associated with children under age four.“The findings from our study show that the current voluntary standards for shopping cart safety are not adequate,” Dr. Gary Smith, director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, said in a news release. “Not only have the overall number of child injuries associated with shopping carts not decreased since implementation of the safety standards, but the number of concussions and closed head injuries is actually increasing. It is time we take action to protect our children by strengthening shopping cart safety standards with requirements that will more effectively prevent tip-overs and falls from shopping carts.”The study’s authors suggested improving restraint systems, placing shopping cart child seats closer to the floor, educating parents about shopping cart safety, and encouraging stores to have their employees promote the use of cart safety belts.“The best advice I can give parents is simply that observation alone can prevent these types of falls,” EMMC’s Ross said. “It’s especially important to be vigilant about watching infants in car seats that are placed in shopping carts.”Other tips for preventing shopping cart-related injuries from Nationwide Children’s Hospital:• Whenever possible, choose alternatives to placing your child in a shopping cart.• Always use the shopping cart safety straps. Be sure your child is snugly secured in the straps and that the child’s legs are placed through the leg openings. If parts of the cart restraint system are missing or not working, choose another cart.• Use a cart that has a child seat low to the ground, if one is available.• Make sure your child remains seated.

http://bangordailynews.com/2014/01/...-66-kids-to-nations-ers-each-day-study-finds/

These things happen. Who cares?

 

[DigitalDrifter]

If shopping carts are outlawed, only outlaws will have shopping carts.

 

[R.D.]

We need shopping carts shaped like guns, then the liberals would care

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Outlaw shopping carts you heartless bastards

 

[dilloduck]

Background checks for anyone using one. Hit a car with one -----felony.

 

[protectionist]

My biggest gripe about shopping carts is the nitwits who leave them in the parking spots (making it difficult for the next driver to use that spot). These pathetics can't walk 20 feet to the storage pen to put them away ? And most of them are young and in good physical shape.

All I can say is if this is the way they live, when they get older, they WON'T be in good physical shape. They'll be the equivalent of a marshmallow with feet.

Put away your shopping carts, you lazy slugs!

 

[PoliticalChic]

Lets ban shopping carts, this is unacceptable to have shopping carts sending our children to the hospital.

Shopping cart injuries send 66 kids to nation’s ERs each day, study finds

Every 22 minutes in the U.S., an injury from a shopping cart sends a child to the emergency room, according to new research that finds voluntary safety standards fail to protect kids in the grocery store.Between 1990 and 2011, about 530,500 children under age 15 were hospitalized due to a shopping cart-related injury, which translates to more than 24,000 children a year, or 66 children each day, according to the*new study*by Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, published in the January issue of the journal Clinical Pediatrics.Dr. Michael Ross, a pediatrician at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, urged parents to exercise caution when placing children in shopping carts.“While we aren’t seeing the same injury rate as suggested in the study in our area, about every six months or so I see patients that have had a fall from a shopping cart related incident,” Ross said in a press release about the new research.Falls from a shopping cart accounted for the majority of injuries, about 70 percent, followed by running into or falling over a cart, carts tipping over, and getting body parts trapped in a cart.The most commonly injured body part was the head. While soft-tissue injuries were the most common type of head injury, the annual rate of concussions and internal head injuries rose by more than 200 percent over the study period, to 12,333 in 2011. Most of the increase, which occurred despite the implementation of voluntary shopping cart safety standards in 2004, was associated with children under age four.“The findings from our study show that the current voluntary standards for shopping cart safety are not adequate,” Dr. Gary Smith, director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, said in a news release. “Not only have the overall number of child injuries associated with shopping carts not decreased since implementation of the safety standards, but the number of concussions and closed head injuries is actually increasing. It is time we take action to protect our children by strengthening shopping cart safety standards with requirements that will more effectively prevent tip-overs and falls from shopping carts.”The study’s authors suggested improving restraint systems, placing shopping cart child seats closer to the floor, educating parents about shopping cart safety, and encouraging stores to have their employees promote the use of cart safety belts.“The best advice I can give parents is simply that observation alone can prevent these types of falls,” EMMC’s Ross said. “It’s especially important to be vigilant about watching infants in car seats that are placed in shopping carts.”Other tips for preventing shopping cart-related injuries from Nationwide Children’s Hospital:• Whenever possible, choose alternatives to placing your child in a shopping cart.• Always use the shopping cart safety straps. Be sure your child is snugly secured in the straps and that the child’s legs are placed through the leg openings. If parts of the cart restraint system are missing or not working, choose another cart.• Use a cart that has a child seat low to the ground, if one is available.• Make sure your child remains seated.

Shopping cart injuries send 66 kids to nation?s ERs each day, study finds ? Health ? Bangor Daily News ? BDN Maine

They'll have to pry my high capacity shopping cart out of my cold dead hands!

 

[Jughead]

Shopping cart injuries send 66 kids to nation’s ERs each day, study finds

Guns injure 20 kids per day. So shopping carts are 3 times as dangerous to kids as guns. How do we address the shopping cart issue?

 

[martybegan]

My biggest gripe about shopping carts is the nitwits who leave them in the parking spots (making it difficult for the next driver to use that spot). These pathetics can't walk 20 feet to the storage pen to put them away ? And most of them are young and in good physical shape.

All I can say is if this is the way they live, when they get older, they WON'T be in good physical shape. They'll be the equivalent of a marshmallow with feet.

Put away your shopping carts, you lazy slugs!

I make it a game. I line up the cart about 40 ft from the nearest cart corral and let it fly.

Word of advice. Dont park your car near the cart coralls in Queens NY. I tend to go wide right.

 

[blastoff]

You all can make fun of this very serious issue all you want, but I've phoned my representative and both senators in DC insisting on investigations by both bodies to see if any of the companies responsible for such dangerous renagades in their stores and parking lots are guilty of utilizing assault shopping carts anywhere within their organizations. And I expect a bipartisan effort from each and every one of those five hundred and forty-something generally useless parasites.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Lets ban shopping carts, this is unacceptable to have shopping carts sending our children to the hospital.

Shopping cart injuries send 66 kids to nation’s ERs each day, study finds

Every 22 minutes in the U.S., an injury from a shopping cart sends a child to the emergency room, according to new research that finds voluntary safety standards fail to protect kids in the grocery store.Between 1990 and 2011, about 530,500 children under age 15 were hospitalized due to a shopping cart-related injury, which translates to more than 24,000 children a year, or 66 children each day, according to the*new study*by Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, published in the January issue of the journal Clinical Pediatrics.Dr. Michael Ross, a pediatrician at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, urged parents to exercise caution when placing children in shopping carts.“While we aren’t seeing the same injury rate as suggested in the study in our area, about every six months or so I see patients that have had a fall from a shopping cart related incident,” Ross said in a press release about the new research.Falls from a shopping cart accounted for the majority of injuries, about 70 percent, followed by running into or falling over a cart, carts tipping over, and getting body parts trapped in a cart.The most commonly injured body part was the head. While soft-tissue injuries were the most common type of head injury, the annual rate of concussions and internal head injuries rose by more than 200 percent over the study period, to 12,333 in 2011. Most of the increase, which occurred despite the implementation of voluntary shopping cart safety standards in 2004, was associated with children under age four.“The findings from our study show that the current voluntary standards for shopping cart safety are not adequate,” Dr. Gary Smith, director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, said in a news release. “Not only have the overall number of child injuries associated with shopping carts not decreased since implementation of the safety standards, but the number of concussions and closed head injuries is actually increasing. It is time we take action to protect our children by strengthening shopping cart safety standards with requirements that will more effectively prevent tip-overs and falls from shopping carts.”The study’s authors suggested improving restraint systems, placing shopping cart child seats closer to the floor, educating parents about shopping cart safety, and encouraging stores to have their employees promote the use of cart safety belts.“The best advice I can give parents is simply that observation alone can prevent these types of falls,” EMMC’s Ross said. “It’s especially important to be vigilant about watching infants in car seats that are placed in shopping carts.”Other tips for preventing shopping cart-related injuries from Nationwide Children’s Hospital:• Whenever possible, choose alternatives to placing your child in a shopping cart.• Always use the shopping cart safety straps. Be sure your child is snugly secured in the straps and that the child’s legs are placed through the leg openings. If parts of the cart restraint system are missing or not working, choose another cart.• Use a cart that has a child seat low to the ground, if one is available.• Make sure your child remains seated.

Shopping cart injuries send 66 kids to nation?s ERs each day, study finds ? Health ? Bangor Daily News ? BDN Maine

They'll have to pry my high capacity shopping cart out of my cold dead hands!

Lol !

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Shopping cart injuries send 66 kids to nation’s ERs each day, study finds

Guns injure 20 kids per day. So shopping carts are 3 times as dangerous to kids as guns. How do we address the shopping cart issue?

Waiting periods for anyone wanting to use one, background checks, etc.
Laws requring the wheels to be removed from all carts might also reduce deaths and injuries.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

These aren't real injuries. Some black or hispanic woman makes the story up so she can sue some white grocer. $35,000 a year welfare ain't enough for these parasites.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Shopping cart Insurance.They can tie it into obammy care way cheaper then your old insurance.
And if you like your cart you can keep it.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Shopping cart Insurance.They can tie it into obammy care way cheaper then your old insurance.
And if you like your cart you can keep it.

Oh yeah............................................Period!

 

[zeke]

Lets ban shopping carts, this is unacceptable to have shopping carts sending our children to the hospital.

Shopping cart injuries send 66 kids to nation’s ERs each day, study finds

Every 22 minutes in the U.S., an injury from a shopping cart sends a child to the emergency room, according to new research that finds voluntary safety standards fail to protect kids in the grocery store.Between 1990 and 2011, about 530,500 children under age 15 were hospitalized due to a shopping cart-related injury, which translates to more than 24,000 children a year, or 66 children each day, according to the*new study*by Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, published in the January issue of the journal Clinical Pediatrics.Dr. Michael Ross, a pediatrician at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, urged parents to exercise caution when placing children in shopping carts.“While we aren’t seeing the same injury rate as suggested in the study in our area, about every six months or so I see patients that have had a fall from a shopping cart related incident,” Ross said in a press release about the new research.Falls from a shopping cart accounted for the majority of injuries, about 70 percent, followed by running into or falling over a cart, carts tipping over, and getting body parts trapped in a cart.The most commonly injured body part was the head. While soft-tissue injuries were the most common type of head injury, the annual rate of concussions and internal head injuries rose by more than 200 percent over the study period, to 12,333 in 2011. Most of the increase, which occurred despite the implementation of voluntary shopping cart safety standards in 2004, was associated with children under age four.“The findings from our study show that the current voluntary standards for shopping cart safety are not adequate,” Dr. Gary Smith, director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, said in a news release. “Not only have the overall number of child injuries associated with shopping carts not decreased since implementation of the safety standards, but the number of concussions and closed head injuries is actually increasing. It is time we take action to protect our children by strengthening shopping cart safety standards with requirements that will more effectively prevent tip-overs and falls from shopping carts.”The study’s authors suggested improving restraint systems, placing shopping cart child seats closer to the floor, educating parents about shopping cart safety, and encouraging stores to have their employees promote the use of cart safety belts.“The best advice I can give parents is simply that observation alone can prevent these types of falls,” EMMC’s Ross said. “It’s especially important to be vigilant about watching infants in car seats that are placed in shopping carts.”Other tips for preventing shopping cart-related injuries from Nationwide Children’s Hospital:• Whenever possible, choose alternatives to placing your child in a shopping cart.• Always use the shopping cart safety straps. Be sure your child is snugly secured in the straps and that the child’s legs are placed through the leg openings. If parts of the cart restraint system are missing or not working, choose another cart.• Use a cart that has a child seat low to the ground, if one is available.• Make sure your child remains seated.

Shopping cart injuries send 66 kids to nation?s ERs each day, study finds ? Health ? Bangor Daily News ? BDN Maine

Hey gun nutters. Wonder if any of you are smart enough to figure out the safety practices that could keep a kid from getting shot by a gun found in the home.

You know, things like; put your guns in a gun safe. If left out of the safe, put a trigger lock on the gun, or don't store the gun loaded.

Just little helpful safety tips for those gun nutters who aren't smart enough to figure gun safety and kids out.

Which would be all you fucking idiots that think kids falling from carts and getting head injuries is funny. Stupid fucks.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Everyone, please forgive Zeke. He fell out of a shopping cart on his head when he was 17 years old.

 

[laughinReaper]

I always left the kids home with grandma or hubby when shopping,problem solved.