BACKGROUND Firearm injury is the leading cause of injury-related death among youth and second leading cause of injury-related death overall in the United States. Our objective is to determine the impact of brief office counseling by family physicians on patients' firearm storage habits. METHODS Of the 1,233 patients who completed the enrollment questionnaire, 156 (13%) reported they had guns ...

INTRODUCTION We report a case of deliberate self-harm in which three three-inch nails were fired from a nail gun resulting in mandibular fixation and two penetrating injuries to the right cardiac ventricle. This combination of high-velocity penetrating injury has not been previously described. CASE PRESENTATION A 69-year-old Caucasian man with a medical history of chronic depression was broug...

Background Gun shows are an important source of firearms, but no adequately powered studies have examined whether they are associated with increases in firearm injuries. Objective To determine whether gun shows are associated with short-term increases in local firearm injuries and whether this association differs by the state in which the gun show is held. Design Quasi-experimental. Setti...

A case of nail gun injury is reported. Preoperative radiographs are essential to determine whether copper barbs project from the nail shaft before any attempt is made to remove the nail. Thorough exploration is required.

DESCRIPTION A 25-year-old right-hand dominant man presents with an accidental self-inflicted nail gun injury impaling the mid left palm in line with the middle finger and close to Kaplan's line.

A retropharyngeal abscess is an infection in one of the deep spaces of the neck. An abscess in this location is an immediate life-threatening emergency with potential for airway compromise and other catastrophic complications . In adults, retropharyngeal abscess can occur as a result of local trauma such as foreign body ingestion like fishbones or instrumental procedures like laryngoscopy, endo...

High-pressure injection injuries occur infrequently but are usually work-related and involve the non-dominant hand. The neck is a very rare site for such an injury. We describe the management of a 36-year-old man with a high-pressure grease-gun injection injury to his neck causing a cervical spinal cord injury. He developed severe motor and sensory changes which were relieved by surgical remova...

Under federal law, it is illegal for youth under age 18 to purchase rifles or shotguns, and for those under age 21 to purchase handguns. However, fatality and injury statistics clearly show that guns are finding their way into young people's hands. Many of these youth obtain guns through illegal gun markets. This article focuses on how guns in the United States are manufactured, marketed, and s...

BACKGROUND Professional organizations have called for the medical community's attention to the prevention of firearm injury. However, little is known about physicians' attitudes and practices in preventing firearm injury. OBJECTIVE To determine internists' attitudes and practices about firearms and to assess whether opinions differ according to whether there are gun owners in a physician's ho...

An epithelioid haemangioendothelioma developed at the site of injury sustained from an air gun pellet 20 years previously in an otherwise healthy 30 year old man, suggesting a possible traumatic aetiology in this case.