High chairs send U.S. kids to ER every hour: study

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High chairs send U.S. kids to ER every hour: study

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Every hour, on average, a child ends up in a U.S. emergency room with an injury associated with a high chair, according to a new study. Each year between 2003 and 2010, an average of about 9,500 infants and toddlers came to U.S. emergency rooms with high-chair-related injuries. "By the end of the study in 2010, there were around 11,000 kids being seen every year," Dr. Gary Smith, the study's senior author, told Reuters Health. The most common injuries associated with high chairs were so-called closed-head injuries, such as concussions.

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