TY - JOUR
T1 - Firearm injuries and children
T2 - Position statement of the American pediatric surgical association
AU - APSA Board of Governors
AU - Petty, John K.
AU - Henry, Marion C.W.
AU - Nance, Michael L.
AU - Ford, Henri R.
AU - Upperman, Jeff
AU - Baertschiger, Reto
AU - Bhatia, Amina
AU - Christison-Lagay, Emily
AU - Duke, Duane
AU - Duron, Vincent
AU - Escobar, Mauricio
AU - Gibbs, David
AU - Grewal, Harsh
AU - Gulack, Brian
AU - Jamshidi, Ramin
AU - Jensen, Aaron
AU - Larson, Shawn
AU - Letton, Robert
AU - Naiditch, Jessica
AU - Naik-Mathuria, Bindi
AU - Nasr, Isam
AU - Price, Mitchell
AU - Prince, Jose
AU - Ramos, Carmen
AU - Russell, Robert
AU - Stallion, Anthony
AU - Stephenson, Jacob
AU - Stewart, Dylan
AU - Vogel, Adam
AU - Wallenstein, Kim
AU - Williams, Regan
AU - Bass, Kathryn
AU - Bliss, David
AU - Chen, Mike
AU - Coakley, Brian
AU - Downard, Cynthia
AU - Durrant, Audry
AU - Hilfiker, Mary
AU - Knod, Leslie
AU - Lister, Julius
AU - Phillips, Duncan
AU - Ruscher, Kimberly
AU - Fallat, Mary
AU - Langham, Max
AU - Vinocur, Chuck
AU - Bailey, Patrick
AU - Hirschl, Ronald B.
AU - Vacanti, Joseph P.
AU - Chen, Michael
AU - DIllon, Peter
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 American Academy of Pediatrics. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Firearm injuries are the second most common cause of death in children who come to a trauma center, and pediatric surgeons provide crucial care for these patients. The American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA) is committed to comprehensive pediatric trauma readiness, including firearm injury prevention. The APSA supports a public health approach to firearm injury, and it supports availability of quality mental health services. The APSA endorses policies for universal background checks, restrictions on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, strong child access protection laws, and a minimum purchase age of 21 years. The APSA opposes efforts to keep physicians from counseling children and families about firearms. The APSA promotes research to address this problem, including increased federal research support and research into the second victim phenomenon. The ASPA supports school safety and readiness, including bleeding control training. Although it may be daunting to try to reduce firearm deaths in children, the United States has seen success in reducing motor vehicle deaths through a multidimensional approach: prevention, design, policy, behavior, and trauma care. The ASPA believes that a similar public health approach can succeed in saving children from death and injury from firearms. The ASPA is committed to building partnerships to accomplish this.
AB - Firearm injuries are the second most common cause of death in children who come to a trauma center, and pediatric surgeons provide crucial care for these patients. The American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA) is committed to comprehensive pediatric trauma readiness, including firearm injury prevention. The APSA supports a public health approach to firearm injury, and it supports availability of quality mental health services. The APSA endorses policies for universal background checks, restrictions on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, strong child access protection laws, and a minimum purchase age of 21 years. The APSA opposes efforts to keep physicians from counseling children and families about firearms. The APSA promotes research to address this problem, including increased federal research support and research into the second victim phenomenon. The ASPA supports school safety and readiness, including bleeding control training. Although it may be daunting to try to reduce firearm deaths in children, the United States has seen success in reducing motor vehicle deaths through a multidimensional approach: prevention, design, policy, behavior, and trauma care. The ASPA believes that a similar public health approach can succeed in saving children from death and injury from firearms. The ASPA is committed to building partnerships to accomplish this.
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U2 - 10.1542/peds.2018-3058
DO - 10.1542/peds.2018-3058
M3 - Article
C2 - 31235607
AN - SCOPUS:85069175552
SN - 0031-4005
VL - 144
JO - Pediatrics
JF - Pediatrics
IS - 1
M1 - e20183058
ER -