Emergency Trauma Anesthesia Care and Outcomes in Pediatric Firearm and Nonfirearm Injuries: 9-Year Experience From a Regional US Level 1 Trauma Center
Pediatric trauma patients required high intraoperative therapeutic intensity, which was higher during firearm injury anesthesia care. Postoperative firearm injury mortality was high but less than from nonfirearm injury. Firearm injury patterns, anesthesia care and outcomes varied by age group. Operating room team readiness and provision of timely and high intensity anesthetic care are needed to save lives of injured children.
Authors
- John R. Hess (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8596-4420)
- Meera Gangadharan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3577-8405)
- Wil Van Cleve (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5637-4966)
- Pudkrong Aichholz
- Maeve Muldowney
- Lynn G. Stansbury (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6832-881X)
- Marie Angèle Théard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4897-271X)
- Monica S. Vavilala (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2354-5279)
- Andrew M. Walters (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2065-3191)
Institutions
- University of Washington (US)
- The University of Texas Health Science Center (US)
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Anesthesia & Analgesia
- Published
- 2025-08-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1213/ane.0000000000007652
- Primary Topic
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00