Firearms can cause fatal wounds, which can be identified by traces on or around the body. However, there are cases where neither the bullet nor gun is found at the crime scene. Ballistic research involving finite element models can reproduce computational biomechanical conditions, without compromising bioethics, as they involve no direct tests on animals or humans. This study aims to compare th...

CONTEXT Shotgun injuries are the cause of increasing surgical problems related to the proliferation of firearms. Gunshot pancreaticoduodenal traumas are unusual in urban trauma units. Their management remains complex because of the absence of standardized, universal guidelines for treatment and the high incidence of associated lesions of major vessels as well as of other gastrointestinal struct...

abstract vascular injury presents a great challenge to the emergency resident because these injuries require urgent intervention to prevent loss of life or limb. sometimes serious vascular injury presents with only subtle or occult signs or symptoms. the patient may present weeks or months after initial injury with symptoms of vascular insufficiency, embolization, pseudoaneurysm, arteriovenous ...

Abstract Background Civilian gunshot wounds to the head refer brain injury caused by projectiles such as gun and various fragments generated explosives in a power launch or explosion. Gunshot are deadliest of all injuries. According literature statistics, survival rate patients with is only 9%. Due strict management types firearms, they rarely occur, so mechanism, trauma analysis, clinical mana...

F. S-, aged 21 years, a German contractor, was admitted into the Medical College Hospital, under Dr. Fayrer's care, on the 25th February, 1866, at 4g a.m., with a gunshot wound of the right forearm, produced by the explosion of a loaded firearm, whilst he was imprudently taking out the ramrod by force. The gun was held between the knees of his comrade, whilst he stood in front. The thumb and fo...

OBJECTIVE To examine trends in suicide rates in Israel over a 13-year period. METHOD All cases of autopsy-confirmed suicide in Israel from 1985 to 1997 were retrospectively reviewed. RESULTS An overall annual increase in suicide rates, with rates in men 3 times higher than those in women, was observed. Suicide rates were highest in the second and third decades of life. Unlike Western countr...

BACKGROUND We evaluated correlates of gunshot wound (GSW) injuries in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Firearm-related injury has previously been linked to socio- and geo-demographic indicators such as occupation, income, neighborhood and race in other metropolitan areas, but remains understudied in Miami. METHODS We reviewed 4,547 cases from a Level I trauma center's patient registry involving an...

OBJECTIVE To examine the epidemiology of Americans shooting themselves in the foot. DESIGN Data from the Firearm Injury Surveillance Study (1993-2010) collected using the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System were examined. Non-fatal firearm-related injuries were recorded during patients' initial emergency department visits. SETTING United States hospital emergency departments, 199...

Dear Sir, Although firearm injuries are rare among penetrating traumas in children, they are very important in terms of their complications. Many thoracic complications may arise during spinal trauma caused by gunshot wounds.[1] Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak is one of the serious complications of gunshot wounds.[1] Here, we present a 10‐year‐old girl admitted to our Pediatric Intensive Care Un...

© 2004 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors We applaud the Executive of the Section on Emergency Medicine of the Ontario Medical Association for their call to action. We support many of the points made in their position statement but ultimately believe that a law for the mandatory reporting of gunshot wounds will do more harm than good. Ovens describes the support the position statemen...