{"pk":8871,"title":"Injuries Following Segway Personal Transporter Accidents: Case Report and Review of the Literature","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The Segway® self-balancing personal transporter has been used as a means of transport for sightseeing tourists, military, police and emergency medical personnel. Only recently have reports been published about serious injuries that have been sustained while operating this device. This case describes a 67-year-old male who sustained an oblique fracture of the shaft of the femur while using the Segway® for transportation around his community. We also present a review of the literature.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Personal Transporter"}],"section":"Injury Prevention and Population Health","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/37r4387d","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"John","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ashurst","name_suffix":"","institution":"Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Johnstown, Pennsylvania","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Benjamin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wagner","name_suffix":"","institution":"Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Johnstown, Pennsylvania","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2015-04-20T20:50:14Z","date_accepted":"2015-04-20T20:50:14Z","date_published":"2015-10-20T22:44:02Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/8871/galley/5050/download/"}]}