Lawrence D W, Gibbs L I, Kohn M A
Injury Research and Prevention Section, Louisiana Office of Public Health, New Orleans 70112, USA.
J La State Med Soc. 1996 Feb;148(2):77-9.
Serious injuries resulting in paralysis and death have occurred to hunters who have fallen from deer stands that were not equipped with safety restraints. Among the most serious of these are spinal cord injuries. We examined all deer stand-related spinal cord injuries reported to Louisiana's Spinal Cord Injuries Registry from 1985 through 1994. During the 1985 through 1991 hunting seasons, we received reports of 28 deer stand falls resulting in permanent paralysis (an average of four each year) and 13 reports of temporary neurologic deficit. These injuries led to first-year medical care charges estimated at more than $4.2 million. None of the patients in the reported cases were using a safety restraint at the time of injury. After a public information campaign to make hunters aware of the risk of using deer stands without safety belts was conducted in 1992, there were no reported spinal cord injuries associated with deer stand falls for the following three years.
从没有配备安全约束装置的鹿站坠落的猎人出现了导致瘫痪和死亡的严重伤害。其中最严重的是脊髓损伤。我们检查了1985年至1994年向路易斯安那州脊髓损伤登记处报告的所有与鹿站相关的脊髓损伤。在1985年至1991年的狩猎季节，我们收到了28起鹿站坠落导致永久性瘫痪的报告（平均每年四起）以及13起暂时性神经功能缺损的报告。这些伤害导致第一年的医疗费用估计超过420万美元。报告病例中的患者在受伤时均未使用安全约束装置。1992年开展了一项公众宣传活动，以使猎人意识到使用没有安全带的鹿站的风险，在随后的三年里，没有报告与鹿站坠落相关的脊髓损伤。
