TY - JOUR PY - 2020// TI - Expanding the safety net: emergency department-based gun lock distribution for violence prevention JO - Journal of emergency medicine A1 - Turkiewicz, Anika M. A1 - Wolf, Margaret A1 - Charles, Scott A1 - Healy, Megan E. A1 - Schreyer, Kraftin E. SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - We hear the familiar sound too often: screeching tires as a private vehicle or prehospital transport flies into our ambulance bay. "Trauma in the trauma bay," the triage nurse pages overhead. The emergency and trauma teams quickly respond, too often finding a victim of violence unstable or pulseless from multiple penetrating wounds. Many of the patients are stabilized or rushed to surgery. Others are lost in spite of the heroic efforts of all staff, nurses, and physicians involved. Far too many cases end with world-shattering news being delivered to anxious families.

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LA - en SN - 0736-4679 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jemermed.2020.11.002 ID - ref1 ER -