ment in parent supervision. Other postmarketing surveillance requirements include the monitoring ofthe durability of the product and determining whether the countermeasure has been applied as intended (for example bicycle helmet fit).5 What's needed is a systematic approach to injury countermeasure postmarketing surveillance. Only then will the full value of the countermeasure for the world com...

PURPOSE To describe a case of trans-orbital intra-cranial air gun injury with a discussion on air gun related morbidity and mortality. METHODS Case report and literature review. RESULTS The air gun pellet travelled through the orbit without penetrating the globe. It passed into the middle cranial fossa through the superior orbital fissure and lodged in the temporal lobe. The patient was man...

Gun violence is a major cause of preventable injury and death in the United States, leading to more than 33,000 deaths each year. However, gun violence prevention is an understudied and underfunded area of research. We review the barriers to research in the field, including restrictions on federal funding. We then outline potential areas in which further research could inform clinical practice,...

Injury prevention experts have suggested that gun manufacturers could reduce youth violence by changing the design of guns. Product safety features could make guns more difficult for children to fire unintentionally and more difficult to use if stolen or obtained illegally. This article gives a brief history of efforts to make safer, smarter guns and assesses the potential of the product safety...

BACKGROUND National surveillance systems have differentiated long guns into rifles and shotguns but fail to do so for handgun type. We sought to determine whether specific gun type data could be collected and whether knowledge of specific gun types (rifle, shotgun, pistol, revolver) could be used to distinguish gun homicide victims with respect to important injury parameters such as number of w...