Recreational firearm use is a popular leisure-time activity in the United States enjoyed by millions of individuals across all age groups. Recreational firearms produce impulse noise levels that exceed 140 decibels peak sound pressure levels (dB peak SPL). Unprotected ear exposure to this high-level impulse noise can cause immediate and irreversible damage to delicate inner ear structures of bo...

BACKGROUND Coverage of traumatic soft-tissue defects in the lower limb is a common procedure. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this prospective case series study was explore the capacity of the perforator-based sural flap in reconstruction surgery of patients with high velocity gunshot wounds in the distal third of the leg and heel pad of the foot. PATIENTS AND METHODS A prospective case series st...

This is a case report of extra-peritoneal rectal injury, secondary to a gunshot, that was managed non-operatively. A 57-year old male presented with a single gunshot to the right buttock and had blood per rectum. Extra-peritoneal rectal injuries were seen on proctoscopy and he had no genitourinary injury. He was managed successfully without rectal injury repair orfaecal stream diversion.

A recent Florida law, Medical Privacy Concerning Firearms, potentially bars physicians from being able to ask patients about firearms ownership unless safety is an immediate concern. The ability of physicians to provide preventive medicine and perform risk assessments could be threatened. The ensuing debate has focused on a political and constitutional battleground between physicians and patien...

Abstract The use of firearms is a complex issue which involves issues related to mental health and public policies. This scoping review aimed analyze individual social risk predictors for the firearms. Based on guidelines Preferred Reporting Items Systematic Reviews Meta-Analyses extension Scoping - PRISMA-ScR, six databases were consulted 605 studies, retrieved. After screening, 16 empirical s...

Thoracic trauma occurs frequently but seldom requires surgery (10-20%, [1]). The mortality rate for gunshot wound of the chest varies from 14.3 to 36.8% [2]. We report, herein an example of bullet injury to the pulmonary artery (PA) following a thoracic gunshot wound. This patient had previous history of coronary surgery. Absolute and relative indications for exploratory thoracotomy in emergenc...

BACKGROUND Gunshot wounds impose a continuous burden on community and hospital resources. Gunshot injuries to the extremities might involve complex soft tissue, bone, vascular, musculotendinous, and nerve injuries. A precise knowledge of anatomy is needed to evaluate and treat those injuries. OBJECTIVES To review our experience with gunshot wounds to the extremities. METHODS We retrospectiv...

In the early 1990s, the Kansas City Police Department conducted a quasi-experiment in which they tested the effect of directed police patrols in a high violent crime neighborhood. The directed patrol strategy utilized officers in patrol cars who were freed from the responsibility of responding to calls for police service. The officers were instructed to proactively patrol the neighborhood with ...

The goal of the article is to present a novel Multimedia Firearms Training System. The system was developed in order to compensate for major problems of existing shooting training systems. The designed and implemented solution can be characterized by five major advantages: algorithm for automatic geometric calibration, algorithm of photometric recalibration, firearms hit point detection using t...

A record number of firearm background checks were completed at the onset COVID-19 pandemic and during protests following murder George Floyd. Using monthly state-level data, we show that increase in check rates March 2020 June differ from previous gun-buying events least two important ways. First, increases surrounding Floyd are significantly larger than events. Second, nonpartisan; effect Repu...