BACKGROUND: More than 1 million @entity1 live, play, and work on farms, surrounded by animals and machinery. This symbiotic relationship between work and home exposes @entity1 to unique risks. METHODS: @entity1 presenting with a farm-related injury (November 1994 to August 2001, 82 months) were included. @entity130 registry parameters included @entity130 score (ISS); Glascow @entity772 Scale (GCS); time to presentation; season and day of @entity130 , intensive care unit, and total length of stay type; and mechanism of injury; and operations. RESULTS: A total of 1,832 pediatric @entity130 @entity1 were evaluated. Ninety-four @entity1 were identified with farm-related @entity130 . Mean age was 10.75 years. Mean ISS was 7.38. Three @entity1 died. Four @entity1 wore protective equipment. Forty-four percent of @entity130 occurred during summer, 31% during spring, and 55% on weekends. Average time to initial presentation was 39 minutes. A total of 177 minutes elapsed before transfer to regional @entity130 center. Seventy-two @entity1 required admission. LOS was 0 to 28 days, mean, 2.76 days. Twenty-six @entity1 (28%) required operations. Injuries included dislocations/ @entity174 (52%), lacerations/ @entity155 (38%), concussions (31%), contusions (30%), and burns (14%). Mechanism included animals (41%), falls (34%), motor vehicles (28%), all-terrain vehicles (20%), and firearms (4%). CONCLUSIONS: @entity130 occur most commonly during weekends, summer, and spring months, resulting in significant morbidity. Most @entity130 required hospitalization. Unless unstable, initial transfer to a regional pediatric @entity130 center should result in the most cost-effective, prompt, and highest quality of care.

Life on the farm- XXXX at risk.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['children', 'patients', 'Children'] @entity174 :: ('MESH:D050723', 'Disease') :: ['fractures'] @entity772 :: ('MESH:D003128', 'Disease') :: ['Coma'] @entity155 :: ('MESH:D014084', 'Disease') :: ['avulsions'] @entity130 :: ('MESH:D014947', 'Disease') :: ['injury; emergency room', 'injuries', 'Farm injuries', 'Trauma', 'trauma', 'injury severity']
@entity1 :: (9606,Species) :: ['children']
