Wounding Patterns in Fatal and Nonfatal Pediatric Firearm Injuries
Pediatric firearm deaths are largely due to nonsurvivable brain injury. The best opportunity to lower pediatric firearm mortality is to prevent the injury itself, although this needs to be assessed in other cities and settings as well.
Authors
- Mary Matecki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1357-2302)
- Matthew Walker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6368-3644)
- John Corbett
- Katie Donnelly (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6659-695X)
- Geoff I Shapiro
- Babak Sarani
- Stephanie Streit
- Myles Davenport
- Francisco Diaz
- Paige Mitstifier
- E. Reed Smith
Institutions
- Children's National (US)
- Office of Chief Medical Examiner (US)
- George Washington University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Pediatric Emergency Care
- Published
- 2026-02-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/pec.0000000000003580
- Primary Topic
- Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00