Gunshot Wounds in Children Under 10 Years of Age

Ordog, Gary J.; Wasserberger, Jonathan; Schatz, Ivan; Owens-Collins, Deborah; English, Kerry; Balasubramanian, S.; Schlater, Theodore L.

doi:10.1001/archpedi.1988.02150060052028

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“…Penetrating vascular injury, secondary to firearms, provides considerable experience in peripheral vascular injury to pediatric surgeons in the United States, and the incidence of these non-lethal gunshot wounds in children is on the rise [23,24]. Surgical considerations are less oriented around the youth among the patients as the pediatric cohort suffering gunshot wounds is predominantly of teenagers, which approximates the adult experience [24][25][26][27][28].…”

Section: Penetrating Traumamentioning

confidence: 99%

A review of vascular surgery in the pediatric population

Peter

Ostlie

2006

Pediatr Surg Int

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A review of vascular surgery in the pediatric population

Peter

Ostlie

2006

Pediatr Surg Int

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“…The literature on unintentional firearm deaths of children is very small. Older studies tended to be hospital-based case studies (Heins et al 1974 ; Ordog et al 1988 ) or used data from a single county or state (Wintemute et al 1987 ; Grossman et al 1999 ; Cherry et al 2001 ). A recent analysis by an advocacy group gathered information from news reports for the entire nation for one year (Moms Demand Action 2014 ).…”

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Children and unintentional firearm death

Hemenway

Solnick

2015

Inj. Epidemiol.

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BackgroundChildren in the United States are at far greater risk of unintentional gun death than children in other developed countries. The relative figures may even be worse since the estimates for US child unintentional gun deaths are derived from the Vital Statistics which have been shown to be underestimates. No study has used a national data system to investigate the circumstances of fatal child gun accidents.MethodsWe use data from the National Violent Death Reporting System for 16 states from 2005 to 2012. We examine the cases of unintentional gun death involving children in five age groups, 0–1, 2–4, 5–10, 11–12, and 13–14, where the child was either the victim or shooter.ResultsWe estimate that there were 110 unintentional firearm deaths to children 0–14 annually in the U.S. during this 8 year time period, 80 % higher than reported by the Vital Statistics. The victims were predominantly male (81 %). Approximately two thirds of the shootings were other-inflicted, and in 97 % of those cases the shooter was a male. The typical shooter in other-inflicted shootings is a brother or friend. Indeed, children aged 11–14 are often shot in the home of friends. The large majority of children are shot by other children or by themselves. It is rare for a child accidentally to be shot by or accidentally to shoot an adult who is not a family member.ConclusionsOur study highlights the fact that unintentional firearm death to children is a problem of children shooting children and thus the importance of keeping guns away from children, their siblings, and their friends.

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“…These findings were contextualized by rising rates of gang-related murders in Los Angeles County and increasing numbers of gang members in that time frame. Similarly, a prior study by Ordog et al [6] described 34 patients, 10 years of age or younger who were treated for gunshot wounds in Los Angeles between 1980 and 1987, noting that no children in this age range had been treated for gunshot wounds prior to 1980.…”

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Penetrating Craniocerebral Injury in Pediatric Patients

Plonsker¹,

Brandel²,

Khan³

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Frontiers in Traumatic Brain Injury

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Penetrating head trauma is rare in the pediatric population, and rarer still in the civilian pediatric population. The high rehabilitation potential of children and the higher likelihood of a low-velocity, survivable injury necessitates careful management to minimize morbidity due to secondary injury from ischemia or infection. Management of penetrating injuries includes patient stabilization, appropriate imaging, and if surgery is needed, entry/exit site debridement with dural closure to prevent cerebrospinal fluid leak. Post-operative care includes infection prevention, intracerebral pressure management, and early identification of vasospasm and pseudoaneurysm formation.

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Gunshot Wounds in Children Under 10 Years of Age

Cited by 54 publications

References 26 publications

A review of vascular surgery in the pediatric population

A review of vascular surgery in the pediatric population

Children and unintentional firearm death

Penetrating Craniocerebral Injury in Pediatric Patients

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