Patterns of Pediatric Firearm-Related Ocular Trauma in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Gun violence represents a substantial public health issue, and firearm-related injuries rank second among the causes of injury-related deaths in children aged 0 to 17 years in the United States. Ocular trauma from firearm-related injuries can lead to devastating vision loss, but little is known to date about the specific demographics and characteristics of such injuries in children.

Objective

To evaluate the epidemiologic pattern of pediatric firearm-related ocular injuries.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective analysis used deidentified data from the National Trauma Data Bank, the largest national registry of hospitalized trauma cases in the United States. The firearm-related ocular injuries (n = 1972) of pediatric patients (defined as thos

SUBMITTER: Weiss R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6802038 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature