Farm Injuries: Animal Most Common, Machinery Most Lethal: An NTDB Study
| Autor: | Mark R. Anderson, Shelby Cooper, Nicholas J. Hellenthal, Asad Chaudhary, Liam Heneghan, Daphne Monie, Anfin Erickson, Rachel Damroth, Karl Damroth, Theodor Kaufman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Farms Adolescent Poison control Logistic regression Occupational safety and health Young Adult Age Distribution Injury Severity Score Risk Factors Epidemiology Injury prevention Case fatality rate medicine Accidents Occupational Humans Young adult Child Aged business.industry Infant Agriculture General Medicine Middle Aged Logistic Models Child Preschool Emergency medicine Wounds and Injuries Accidental Falls Female business |
| Zdroj: | The American Surgeon. 85:752-756 |
| ISSN: | 1555-9823 0003-1348 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/000313481908500737 |
| Popis: | To characterize both emergency room (ER) and hospital discharge dispositions of patients presenting with farm-related injuries. The 2012 National Trauma Data Bank was queried in August 2017 for injuries occurring on a farm. Patients were stratified by gender, age group, race, Injury Severity Score (ISS), and injury type. We performed logistic regression analysis to correlate parameters with likelihood of discharge home or death. P values < 0.05 were considered significant. Five thousand six hundred thirty-one patients were identified, the majority of whom were male (72%) and white (85%). The most common mechanisms of injury included animal-related (29%), followed by falls, vehicles, and other causes. The highest ISSs were seen in vehicular injuries (11% ISS of 251) and the greatest fatality rate was seen in machinery injuries (4%). Four thousand seven hundred fifty-three (84%) patients were admitted to the hospital, and 4056 (72%) were discharged home from the ER or after hospitalization. One hundred thirty patients (2%) died of their farm-related injury. Most patients presenting to the ER with farm-related injuries survive, are admitted to the hospital, and are ultimately discharged home. Few patients die of their injuries. Animal injury is most common and machinery injury most lethal of farm trauma patients presenting to the ER. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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