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Table 12 Pattern of hospital-treated recreational boating injury, Victoria July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007 (n=902 cases) Hospital–treated recreational boating injury Characteristics Admissions (VAED) ( n = 223) ED Presentations (VEMD) (n = 679) Gender • male (78%) • male (73%) • female (27%) • female (27%) Age group in years • 0-14 (5%) • 0-14 (11%) Activity/ Watercraft • 15-29 (35%) • 15-29 (40%) • 30-44 (29%) • 30-44 (26%) • 45-59 (21%) • 45-59 (16%) • 60+ (11%) • 60+ (7%) • Water skiing and other towed sports {41% mostly waterskiing and wakeboarding (95%) and inflatable riding (5%)} • Personal Watercraft (jet ski) (13%) • Windsurfing/kitesurfing (9%) • Yachting and sailing (7%) • Fishing from a boat (8%) • Passenger craft (3%) • Canoeing/kayaking (2%) • Rafting (2%) • Rowing/sculling (0.4%) • Surfboating (0.4) • Unspecified boating (15%) • Water skiing and other towed sports {44% mostly water skiing (63%), wakeboarding (18%), inflatable riding (8%), kneeboarding (7%)} • Boating {36% mostly not further specified (93%), houseboat (5%), power boating (3%)} • Personal Watercraft (8%) • Sailing (5%) • Fishing from boat (1%) • Canoe/kayaking (2%) • Windsurfing (2%) • Kite surfing (1%) • Rowing (1%) • Rafting (0.3%) Cause • Fall (24%) • On-board incident (22%) • Hit/struck/crush (13%) • Accident to craft (7%) • Overexertion (5%) • Near drowning/submersion (4%) • Cutting/piercing (1%) • Other/unspecified (25%) • Falls (32%) • Struck by/collision with object (32%) • Cutting/piercing (7%) • Transport (3%) • Struck by/collision with person (4%) • Machinery (1%) • Other/unspecified (21%) 44
Hospital–treated recreational boating injury continued Characteristics Admissions (VAED) n = 244 ED Presentations (VEMD) n = 703 Body site injured Nature of injury • Lower extremity {32% mostly knee/ lower leg (63% of lower extremity injuries) and hip/thigh (24%)} • Upper extremity {22%, mostly shoulder/upper arm (45% of upper extremity injuries) and wrist/hand (33%)} • Head/neck {23%: head (69%), neck (31%)} • Trunk {18%: abdomen/lower back/ lumbar spine (51%) and thorax (49%)} • Other/unspecified/missing (6%) • Fractures {44%, mostly knee/ lower leg (29% of fractures), head (13%), wrist/hand (12%), and thorax (10%) • Dislocations/sprain/strain {13%, mostly shoulder/upper arm (41%), knee/lower leg (24%)} • Open wound {7%, mostly knee/ lower leg (33%) and head (27%)} • Injury to muscle/tendon (6%) • Intracranial (5%) • Injury to internal organs (4%) • Superficial (2%) • Injury to nerves/spinal cord (2%) • Traumatic amputation (0.4%) • Other/unspecified/missing (17%) • Lower extremity {32%: foot (25%), lower leg (22%), knee (21%) and ankle (20%)} • Upper extremity {26%: hand incl. fingers (34%), shoulder (26%), wrist (14%) and forearm (13%)} • Head, eyes, face and neck {22% mostly head (45%) and face (41%)} • Trunk (11%, mostly thorax (65%)) • Other/unspecified (9%) • Open wound {26%: face (28%), head (25%), lower leg (12%), foot (10%), and hand (9%)} • Sprain/strain {21%: ankle (15%), thorax (15%), foot (8%), wrist (7%) and neck (7%)} • Fracture {13%: foot/toe (21%), hand/finger (18%); ankle (11%) and thorax (11%)} • Superficial (10%) • Muscle/tendon (9%) • Dislocation (4%) • Foreign body (3%) • Intracranial (2%) • Crushing injury (2%) • Other/unspecified/missing (11%) Source: Hospital admissions: Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset (VAED) Hospital emergency department presentations (non-admissions): Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset (VEMD) Marine Safety in Victoria: July 2007 to June 2008 45
Page 1 and 2: Marine Safety in Victoria July 2007
Page 3: Contents Summary 6 1. Introduction
Page 6 and 7: Figures Title Page Figure 1 Trend i
Page 8 and 9: Summary This is the fifth MUARC rep
Page 10 and 11: • Nearly half (48%) of vessels we
Page 12 and 13: • Forty-four percent of admission
Page 14 and 15: 1.2 Data sources 1.2.1 Marine Incid
Page 16 and 17: of data is coded using the fourth A
Page 18 and 19: MSV has expanded this definition to
Page 20 and 21: 3.2 ‘Response only’ incidents (
Page 22 and 23: There were no recorded commercial v
Page 24 and 25: 3.3.4 Vessel occupant details, PFD
Page 26 and 27: 3.3.7 Contributory factors to ‘se
Page 28 and 29: 3.4.1 Hospital admissions (n=4) The
Page 30 and 31: 4.5 Type of water and environmental
Page 32 and 33: 5.2 Response only incidents (n=926)
Page 34 and 35: Table 5 Factors contributing to ‘
Page 36 and 37: • A half cabin cruiser (vessel le
Page 38 and 39: Table 7 Recreational vessel ‘seri
Page 40 and 41: Vessel length was known for 122 of
Page 42 and 43: Table 10 Recreational ‘serious in
Page 44 and 45: 5.4 Fatalities and hospital-treated
Page 48 and 49: 5.4.2.1 Hospital admissions (n =223
Page 50 and 51: Table 13 Recreational boating-relat
Page 52 and 53: Table 14 Provisional ranking of boa
Page 54 and 55: Figure 11 Hospital-treated towed wa
Page 56 and 57: Figure 12 ED presentations for towe
Page 58 and 59: The major causes of injury were: fa
Page 60 and 61: 5.5.5 Windsurfing and kitesurfing (
Page 62 and 63: 6 Discussion and conclusion There w
Page 64 and 65: Our literature search found only on
Page 66 and 67: ehavioural problems. The third pati
Page 68 and 69: 7 References Ashby K, Cassell E. (2
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