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Prehospital Care of Agricultural Injuries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Dean Stueland ,
John McCarty  and
Peter Stamas Jr.
Dean Stueland*
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medical Education, Marshfield Clinic/St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield, Wisc.
John McCarty
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medical Education, Marshfield Clinic/St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield, Wisc.
Peter Stamas Jr.
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medical Education, Marshfield Clinic/St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield, Wisc.
*
Marshfield Clinic/St. Joseph's Hospital, 1000 North Oak. Avenue, Marshfield, WI 54449USA
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Abstract

In the United States, farming has become one of the most dangerous occupations. There are unique challenges for the providers of prehospital care to victims of agricultural trauma. The machinery and the work environment associated with agricultural trauma are different from those encountered in other occupations. The unique features of the machinery and risks are discussed. In addition, solutions unique to the problems of agricultural prehospital care are discussed. Effective care of the victims of agricultural trauma has a potential to reduce morbidity.

Keywords

agricultural injuriesamputationanimalsasthmabiteschemicalsemergency medical servicesentanglementsentrapmentsfallsfarmingfiresgrabbing-type injurieshypersensitivityinjection-type injurieslacerationsmachinerymutilationpneumonitisprehospitalprehospital carepreventionrabiesrisk factorsrolloverrunoversafety trainingshearingtraumazoonoses
Type
Collective Review
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , June 1993 , pp. 193 - 197
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1993

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