Clinical pediatrics.
Publisher:
Sage Publications. Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications
Frequency: Twevle no. a year, 2010-
Country: United States
Language: English
Start Year:1962 -
ISSN:
0009-9228 (Print)
1938-2707 (Electronic)
0009-9228 (Linking)
1938-2707 (Electronic)
0009-9228 (Linking)
Impact Factor
1.6
2022
| NLM ID: | 0372606 |
| (DNLM): | C26340000(s) |
| (OCoLC): | 00879341 |
| Coden: | CPEDAM |
| Classification: | W1 CL762 |
Pediatric farm-related injuries: a series of 96 hospitalized patients. Ninety-six children were admitted during a 9-year period to a pediatric level 1 trauma center for treatment of farm-related injuries. The age range was from 6 weeks to 17 years (median, 7.5 years; mean, 7.6 years; standard deviation, 4.4). Thirty-nine patients (40.6%) had an animal-related injury, including 36 children (37.5%) who had an injury associated with a horse. Amish children had an increased risk of horse-related injury when compared with non-Amish children (p=0.04; RR=2.09, 95% CI: 1.18<RR<3.70). Thirty-seven patients (38.5%) had farm machinery-related injuries, including 14 ch...
Rabies prophylaxis following the feeding of a rabid pony. A survey was performed to identify people who were exposed to a rabid pony and determine whether or not they received rabies postexposure prophylaxis (PEP). Sixty-one visitors who came in contact with the rabid pony were identified. These visitors heard about the rabid pony via the news media. Forty-five visitors were exposed during the 2 weeks before the pony died. Thirty-two of these 45 visitors received PEP. Thirty-one visitors had or may have had saliva contact to an open wound or mucosa and all 31 received PEP. Fourteen visitors had no saliva contact to a wound or mucosa and one received ...