Department of Global and Community Health, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
Tob Control. 2019 Jul;28(4):472-474. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2018-054518. Epub 2018 Sep 15.
Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) battery failure can result in explosions and burn injuries. Previous attempts to quantify these events has been limited to compilations of case studies, federal agency reports and media reports. Although e-cigarette explosions and burn injuries are thought to be rare, current surveillance methods likely underestimate actual occurrences.
Analyses were conducted on cross-sectional data from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC) National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS). A keyword search of case narrative text was used to identify e-cigarette-related explosion and burn injuries presenting to US emergency departments from 2015 to 2017. Sampling weights were applied to make conservative national incidence estimates.
From 2015 to 2017, there were an estimated 2035 e-cigarette explosion and burn injuries presenting to US hospital emergency departments (95% CI 1107 to 2964).
There are more e-cigarette explosion and burn injuries in the USA than estimated in the past reports. Improved surveillance of e-cigarette injuries and regulation of e-cigarette devices is urgently needed. NEISS could be a valuable resource for e-cigarette injury surveillance.
电子烟（e-cigarette）电池故障可能导致爆炸和烧伤。此前对这些事件的量化尝试仅限于案例研究的汇编、联邦机构报告和媒体报道。尽管电子烟爆炸和烧伤被认为很少见，但当前的监测方法可能低估了实际发生的情况。
对美国消费者产品安全委员会（CPSC）国家电子伤害监测系统（NEISS）的横断面数据进行了分析。对案例描述文本进行了关键字搜索，以确定 2015 年至 2017 年期间向美国急诊部门报告的与电子烟相关的爆炸和烧伤事件。应用抽样权重以做出保守的全国发生率估计。
2015 年至 2017 年，美国医院急诊部估计有 2035 例电子烟爆炸和烧伤（95%可信区间 1107 至 2964）。
美国的电子烟爆炸和烧伤比过去报告的估计要多。迫切需要加强对电子烟伤害的监测和对电子烟设备的监管。NEISS 可能是电子烟伤害监测的有价值资源。
