Farmer Wants Advice

摘要

Agricultural workers are at high risk from heart attacks as a result of lack of knowledge about emergency medical services, according to Dr Tim Baker of Deakin University's Centre for Rural Emergency Medicine. Two-thirds of participants in a study of Victorian farmers believed it was safe to travel to hospital by car while possibly having a heart attack. When asked where their nearest emergency department was, 10% named a town without one. Rates of obesity were high in the sample, suggesting the information might well be critical.