BASE Jumping Injuries Presenting to Emergency Departments in the United States: an Assessment of Morbidity, Emergency Department, and Inpatient Costs

BASE (building, antenna, span, earth) jumping involves jumping from fixed objects with specialized parachutes. BASE jumping is associated with less aerodynamic control and flight stability than skydiving because of the lower altitude of jumps. Injuries and fatalities are often attributed to bad land...

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Published in:Wilderness & environmental medicine 2019-06, Vol.30 (2), p.150-154
Main Authors: Forrester, Joseph D., Yelorda, Kirbi, Tennakoon, Lakshika, Spain, David A., Staudenmayer, Kristan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Athletic Injuries - economics
Athletic Injuries - epidemiology
Aviation - statistics & numerical data
Emergency Service, Hospital - economics
Emergency Service, Hospital - statistics & numerical data
Female
healthcare costs
Hospitalization - economics
Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data
Humans
injury
Male
Middle Aged
recreation
Retrospective Studies
sports
trauma
United States - epidemiology
wilderness
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Summary:BASE (building, antenna, span, earth) jumping involves jumping from fixed objects with specialized parachutes. BASE jumping is associated with less aerodynamic control and flight stability than skydiving because of the lower altitude of jumps. Injuries and fatalities are often attributed to bad landings and object collision. We performed a retrospective analysis of the 2010–2014 National Emergency Department Sample database, a nationally representative sample of all visits to US emergency departments (EDs). BASE jumping-associated injuries were identified using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification codes [E004.0]. Outcomes evaluated included morbidity, mortality, inpatient admission, and costs. Adjusted analyses accounting for survey methodology were performed. After weighting, 1790 BASE-associated ED presentations were identified with 358±28 injuries annually. A total of 1313 patients (73%) were aged 18 to 44 y, and 1277 (71%) were male. Nine hundred seventy-six (55%) multiple body system injuries and 677 (38%) isolated extremity injuries were reported. There were 1588 (89%) patients discharged home from the ED; only 144 (7%) were admitted as inpatients. On multivariate logistic regression, only anatomic site of injury was associated with inpatient admission (odds ratio=0.6, P
ISSN:1080-6032
1545-1534
DOI:10.1016/j.wem.2019.02.002