Doctors warn against injuries caused by pyrotechnics

Doctors warn against injuries caused by pyrotechnics

29/12/2014

From Monday, December 29th, the sale of New Year's Eve fireworks in Germany is allowed this year. Already in the run-up to the turn of the year accidents happen again and again. Physicians have now warned on New Year's Eve from dangerous injuries from firecrackers.

Tear off finger counting to the more harmless cases
In Germany, this year starting from Monday, December 29, utensils for the New Year's Eve fireworks will be sold. As every year, there are already accidents in the apron, as recently in Cologne, where an eleven-year-old was injured by Böller's face). Physicians have now warned on New Year's Eve from dangerous injuries from firecrackers. According to a report by the news agency dpa, the chief physician of the Department of Hand, Replant and Microsurgery of the Berlin Accident Hospital (ukb), Andreas Eisenschenk, said that torn fingers, including severed bones, nerves and blood vessels were among the more harmless cases. „In the worst case, patients lose the whole hand“, so the expert opposite the agency.

Knaller from Eastern Europe particularly dangerous
The German Society for Combustion Medicine said that often uninvolved children like children would be injured by flying around and rockets. As the German Ophthalmological Society (DOG) announced, ophthalmologists require the wearing of goggles to prevent serious eye injuries to blindness. Other experts, such as the medical director of the Department of Ophthalmology of the University Hospital Freiburg, Thomas Reinhard, have pointed in recent days on typical New Year's Eve threats to the eyes, ears and hands. Knockers from markets in Eastern Europe are classified by experts as particularly dangerous. As the doctor Eisenschenk said, they have a great explosive power and can also rise suddenly. (Ad)

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