Citation

Craven JA, Schutz JK. Med. J. Aust. 2010; 193(11-12): 724-725.

Affiliation

Emergency Department, Canberra Hospital, Canberra, ACT, Australia. jcraven@ausdoctors.net.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Australian Medical Association, Publisher Australasian Medical Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

21143072

Abstract

An emergency department audit of horse-related injury presentations alerted researchers to a hitherto un-investigated source of childhood harm: non-equine horses (pommel horses, rocking horses, spring-bottom playground houses). A search for the term "horse" in the database of the South Australian Injury Surveillance and Control Unit was performed for presentations of horse-related injuries to a paediatric emergency department of an Australian tertiary teaching hospital over a 5-year period. After all equine-related episodes were extracted, the remaining presentations were herded together and conclusions were jumped to. When legitimate science and research technique failed, poetic license was prevailed upon.

Language: en