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Too many papers. Not enough time. A free monthly digest of the anaesthesia literature, minus the noise. Built by an anaesthetist, for anaesthetists at antesum.com #AnSky #FOAMed #MedSky

August. 32C in London. Most anaesthetists and surgeons are on a beach somewhere with out-of-office on. The publishers didn’t get the memo. Papers keep coming. Antesum is watching them so you don’t have to. Enjoy the holiday! ⛱️🎉 Antesum.com

AnteSum — The medical literature, distilled by specialty

Too many papers. Not enough time. AnteSum reads the leading peer-reviewed journals in your medical specialty — anaesthesia, orthopaedics and more — and distils them into one monthly digest for clinici...

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E-scooter riders in England and Wales may face higher risk of brain and internal organ injuries than motorcyclists and cyclists. Authors recommend increasing safety through measures like mandatory helmets, speed limits, and e-scooter design improvements: spklr.io/63326EuLhA #PublicHealth

E-scooter riders sustain more head and internal injuries than motorcyclists and cyclists in England and Wales - Scientific Reports

Electric scooters are increasingly used across the United Kingdom, yet national evidence on injury patterns, severity and exposure-adjusted risk remains limited. This study combined the National Major Trauma Registry for England and Wales (trauma admissions, 2020–2022) with operator-reported rental incident data from 18 cities (2020–2024), covering more than 33 million rides and 77.8 million kilometres. The two sources were analysed separately, not linked; across 38,440 records combined (15,247 registry trauma patients and 23,193 operator-reported incidents), e-scooter trauma showed a distinct injury profile, with higher adjusted relative risks than motorcyclists of traumatic brain injury (RR 3.45, 95% CI 3.19–3.75), internal organ injury (1.46, 1.35–1.57) and vascular trauma (3.24, 2.72–3.86), but lower fracture risk (0.80, 0.74–0.85); traumatic brain injury risk also exceeded that of cyclists (1.74, 1.61–1.88). Traumatic brain injury accounted for over one third of adult injuries, and paediatric riders formed a larger share of the trauma burden than in comparator groups. Helmet use was rare, female sex was associated with higher injury severity, and exposure-adjusted collision rates varied with area-level deprivation. A standardised severity framework enables clearer comparison across transport modes and supports evidence-based regulation, infrastructure planning and targeted public health interventions.

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Every good paper has a methods section. Now so do we. 🔬 Which journals we track, what our digest reads, and one deliberate blind spot: it never sees results. No spoilers. What a study found, you find out from the study. antesum.com/methodology

Coverage & methodology — AnteSum

Exactly how AnteSum works: which journals we monitor, what we fetch and exclude, what the AI reads and writes, how papers are classified, and what AnteSum deliberately does not claim.

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