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Pesticide Exposure and Heat Exhaustion in a Migrant Agricultural Worker: A Case of Labor Trafficking
- Source :
- Annals of Emergency Medicine. 76:215-218
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- To our knowledge, there are no published reports of heat exhaustion and pesticide exposure in a labor trafficked patient in the literature. Here we represent the case of J.C.J.L., who was labor trafficked. He presented to a local emergency department with heat exhaustion and pesticide exposure related to working conditions in a Mississippi corn field. Unfortunately, while he received medical treatment, his labor trafficking condition was missed. Emergency departments should be equipped to assess for human trafficking and connect trafficked persons with the resources they need. Emergency physicians should maintain a high index of suspicion for human trafficking among migrant workers presenting with occupation-related complaints.
- Subjects :
- Medical treatment
business.industry
Migrant workers
Heat exhaustion
Corn field
030208 emergency & critical care medicine
Emergency department
medicine.disease
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Agriculture
Environmental health
Emergency Medicine
Medicine
Human trafficking
030212 general & internal medicine
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01960644
- Volume :
- 76
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Annals of Emergency Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........92ed795a0a1136153fdd98c849ccf75d