Suicide With an Air Rifle

Pottker, Tamara I; Dowd,; Howard, Joanne; DiGiulio, Gregg A.

doi:10.1016/s0196-0644(97)70206-3

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“…[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] Some striking observations have been made. Lawrence 3 reported on a series of 10 fatalities, 1 of which was a shot through the medial canthus of the eye in a 6-year-old.…”

Section: Exposure and Injury Profilementioning

confidence: 99%

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Injury Risk of Nonpowder Guns

Laraque¹

2004

Pediatrics

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Section: Exposure and Injury Profilementioning

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“…20 Hearing loss has been reported from nonpowder gun use, 23 and suicides from the use of air guns have been documented. 8,28 Concurrent use of alcohol has been noted also and probably contributes to misuse.…”

Section: Exposure and Injury Profilementioning

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Injury Risk of Nonpowder Guns

Laraque¹

2004

Pediatrics

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“…Several recent reports have described an increase in the number of air gun injuries in the civilian population [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. Children playing with air guns often get injured accidentally.…”

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Endoscopically Assisted Retrieval of an Intracranial Air Gun Pellet

Mohanty¹,

Manwaring²

2002

Pediatr Neurosurg

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Intracranial missile injuries often lodge in deep and inaccessible areas of the brain and are sometimes difficult to remove. Many such missiles are left behind for the fear of surgical morbidity. The authors report the successful removal of a deep-seated intracranial air gun pellet with the aid of an endoscope. A 4-year-old child was admitted after being injured by an air gun pellet in the left forehead. He had no neurological deficits. Cranial CT scan revealed evidence of a pellet lodged in the left frontal region with small bone fragments driven into the adjacent parenchyma. The patient underwent a left frontal craniotomy around the entry wound and debridement of the bone fragments. The track was explored carefully with the aid of a rigid fiberscope and the pellet was identified and removed easily. Postoperatively, the patient had an uneventful recovery. Endoscopic retrieval of the projectile by following the track may be considered a reasonable alternative in suitable cases. This might be useful in retrieving deep-seated missiles.

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“…However, certain types of NPG wounds (specifically eye trauma from paintball guns) may actually be on the rise (12). Although most NPG injuries are accidental, these guns have also been used for suicide, assault, and homicide (1,5,13–16). Despite similar incidence, NPG and CF injury demographics differ in important ways (1,6–8).…”

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Anesthesia for a thoracic BB gun injury

Misseldine

August

2010

Pediatric Anesthesia

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Pediatric anesthesiologists care for children with penetrating trauma from nonpowder (BB and pellet) guns. We present the case of a 9-year-old boy who required urgent median sternotomy for cardiac tamponade after sustaining a close-range BB gun injury to the chest. After summarizing the epidemiology of nonpowder gun injuries in children, we clarify the nomenclature, ballistics, and mechanisms of these guns, discuss the tendency to minimize these kinds of injuries, explain bullet embolization, and review (by body area) current clinical management issues.

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Suicide With an Air Rifle

Cited by 10 publications

References 13 publications

Injury Risk of Nonpowder Guns

Injury Risk of Nonpowder Guns

Endoscopically Assisted Retrieval of an Intracranial Air Gun Pellet

Anesthesia for a thoracic BB gun injury

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