Most accidents involved flame burns, and almost 30% of patients endured “blast injuries” that led to “tooth loss, traumatic tattooing, and extensive loss of soft tissue.” The flame burns required wound care and skin grafts, the doctors wrote. In a 2016 letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors at the University of Washington Medical Center described 15 patients who had suffered from e-cigarette explosions in less than a year.
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While experts and advocacy groups have long raised questions about the health effects of vaping, the risk of explosions and fires has received less attention. A year earlier, another 14-year-old was blinded after an e-cigarette exploded in a Brooklyn mall, according to CNN affiliate WPIX. In one case from 2017, a 14-year-old girl was burned when an e-cigarette exploded in a nearby college student’s pocket while she was on a Harry Potter ride at Universal Studios. Another 17-year-old told CNN affiliate KNXV in 2016 that “it was like bomb going off” before her clothes caught on fire and an e-cigarette explosion left her with burns across her chest, arms and hands. One teen in Oregon nearly lost his eye when his vape exploded two years ago, according to CNN affiliate KYTV. The injuries have mounted as experts warn of an “ epidemic” of teen vaping, with almost 40% of 12th-graders using the devices, according to a report released last year. KTVT/Family PhotoĪ man dies after his e-cigarette explodes in his faceīoth deaths were in adults, but numerous teenagers have reported burns from similar e-cigarette explosions. But others have been less fortunate.Īuthorities say William Brown died after the e-cigarette he was using exploded. The boy Russell treated was “a tough kid,” she said, and he healed well. “I just wanted to get this out there so other people could know that this was possible,” she added. I never heard of this as a possibility” said Russell, who described the boy’s injuries in the New England Journal of Medicine. “At that time, in my career, I had never seen this. He repeated the line over and over again in the emergency room, she remembers, and he was still “pretty freaked out” hours after the explosion. The teen from Nevada said he had no idea his vape could explode, according to Russell. But few are aware of just how serious the incidents can be. One study published in 2018 estimated that more than 2,000 e-cigarette explosion and burn injuries sent users to US hospital emergency departments from 2015 to 2017. It’s unclear what type of e-cigarette was involved in the incident. A CT scan of the 17-year-old boy, featuring his shattered jaw and displaced teeth.
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