5120.0 ICEHS Late-Breaker Presentations

Wednesday, November 7, 2007: 12:30 PM
Oral
This session involves presentations on an interesting range of late-breaking topics, ranging from policies regarding flammable furniture, to psychiatric consequences of injury, to injury prevention strategies being used in National Parks.
Session Objectives: 1. Articulate safety policies regarding furniture flammability. 2. Discuss the approach national parks are taking to prevent injuries among visitors. 3. Describe the importance of psychiatric consequences of injury. 4. Describe the problem of injury among individuals with paraplegia.
Moderator:
Andrea C. Gielen, ScD, ScM

12:30 PM
Visitor injury in National Parks: The magnitude of the problem and how it is being addressed
Sara B. Newman, DrPH, MCP
        
12:48 PM
Inequality in risk but equality in perception: A geospatial comparison of child pedestrian injuries with parental perceptions
June M. Tester, MD MPH, Irene H. Yen, PhD and Michael Jerrett, PhD
     
1:06 PM
Emergency care must include a focus on psychiatric consequences of injury
Therese Richmond, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, Theiman Ackerson, MSW, Justine Shults, PhD, Wensheng Guo, PhD, Vicente Gracias, MD, Judd Hollander, MD, Keith Robinson, MD and Jay Amsterdam, MD
     
1:24 PM
Injury hospitalizations among individuals with paraplegia: Nationwide Inpatient Sample 2001-2004
Erin O. Heiden, MPH, Corinne Peek-Asa, PhD, MPH, Jingzhen Yang, PhD, MPH and Veerasathpurush Allareddy, DDS
  
1:42 PM
Furniture Flammability Standards: A Challenge to Public Health and Safety Policy
Peter A. Brigham, MSW and Arlene Blum, PhD
           

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Injury Control and Emergency Health Services

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

See more of: Injury Control and Emergency Health Services
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