Updated additional information Environment Transportation & Public Safety Standing Committee Meeting April 29, 2020

Regional Trauma Program

Re: RE: April 29, 2020 Environment, Transportation & Public Safety Standing Committee meeting for E-Scooter ride-share development

For council and standing committee consideration,

It is not a matter of if injury will occur, but how much and how severe. A plethora of international evidence has been presented to both the Environment, Transportation, and Public Safety Standing Committee around the volume and types of injury around the world, resulted from e-scooter ride-share participation.

Concern around related future injury for those that will participate in Windsor remain. Currently there is no way of recording e-scooter injury in our ICD-10 coding system. This system is used for all hospital admissions and visits throughout the country. There is some good news on this front as CIHI, the governing body that updates the ICD-10 program, will be adding a new code to identify e-scooter injury. We do not know when this change will occur but anticipate it potentially sometime in 2021.

In the meantime, we are recommending that the city of Windsor, Windsor Regional Hospital, University of Windsor and local urgent care clinics and physicians work collaboratively to develop a plan which includes:

standard injury data collection

education

analysis of data

communication and reporting of data at established intervals

education, awareness and instruction campaigns for potential users including:

This will help to ensure community and expert engagement in determining the risks and benefits of this pilot project and actions required for safe sustainment and injury prevention.

Thank you

Diane