The number of fireworks victims with serious hand injuries was during the last old-and-new celebration lower than last year

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As we ourselves have the idea that it was sometimes just war terms vuurwerkgenknal, yet there is good news:

The number of fireworks victims with serious hand injuries was during the last old-and-new celebration lower than last year. That concludes the Dutch Society for Plastic Surgery (NVPC) based on a study of the number of victims and the severity of firework injuries. have at the turn of 2016 plastic surgeons 33 patients with injuries treated by fireworks at 52 fireworks victims in 2015 and 69 in 2014. The policy to curb (wrong) fireworks used thus seems somewhat bear fruit, although the experience of past years has shown that the number of casualties may still increase significantly until late January. Also this year, illegal fireworks again the biggest culprit of severe hand injuries. Of the 33 lesions was about two-thirds the result of an accident involving illegal fireworks. Moreover, there were fireworks again this year many young victims: almost half of the patients were younger than 18 years. Plastic surgeon Annekatrien of Kar therefore continues to advocate on behalf of the NVPC for drastic measures such as a ban on consumer fireworks and tackling illegal fireworks: "Victims as these children are often insufficiently aware of the risks of fireworks, but suffer the rest of their live with the consequences. "

Plastic surgeons from the Netherlands recorded the most serious cases of fireworks injuries around old and new at the emergency department (ED). They saw victims with severe hand injuries, burns to the hands and all over the body and injuries to soft tissue. A total of 33 patients were treated. 28 times the patient himself had the fireworks, five times this was a bystander. The vast majority of fireworks injuries resulting from bangers, only 6 times, there was an accident with decorative fireworks. In total there are 25 fingers amputated in recent days. A large number of the victims is a minor (45%). Among them was a number of very young children.
True to tradition, were by far the majority of the victims were male, but this turn of the year there were also three female victims fireworks, two bystanders. In addition, it was still the major part of the injury, the result of illegal fireworks, which is the need to go against the import and the use of illegal fireworks only further enlarged.

NVPC continues to advocate for tougher government action
Although the number of casualties caused by fireworks something seems to decline, the Dutch Society for Plastic Surgery (NVPC) remains because of the serious consequences for individual patients advocate for decisive action from the government. The NVPC sees the effects of fireworks injuries are still being underestimated, while fireworks victims often have to live with chronic pain or even permanent disability. Annekatrien of Kar of the NVPC thinks the time is ripe for the government to address: "As far as the NVPC, the government prohibits consumer fireworks and set them even stronger in the strict control and tackling illegal fireworks. The severity of the injury to the individual patient, but also the social consequences outweigh the desire of some individuals to continue to stabbing off fireworks themselves. "