Citation

Ballard DH, Williams M, Samra NS. Am. J. Surg. 2017; 213(6): 1193.

Affiliation

Department of Surgery, Louisiana State University Health Shreveport, 1501 Kings Highway, Shreveport, LA 71103, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.amjsurg.2016.12.016

PMID

28040096

Abstract

We read with great interest the study by Bachier-Rodriguez et al.1 in which they report a two-center retrospective cohort of 562 pediatric firearm injuries with a predominant (80%; 450 of 562 patients) proportion of 15–19 years old adolescents and African-Americans (85.4%; 480/562). Mechanisms included assault (70.5%; 396/562), unintentional (14.4%; 81/562), suicide (3%; 17/562), and undetermined (12.1%; 68/562). Adolescents were significantly more likely to be male, African-American, have higher ISS, and suffer an injury due to assault, whereas children 0–14 years of age were more likely to suffer unintentional firearm injuries.

Language: en