A civilian perspective on ballistic trauma and gunshot injuries
Open Access
- 1 January 2010
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
- Vol. 18 (1), 35-8
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-18-35
Abstract
Gun violence is on the rise in some European countries, however most of the literature on gunshot injuries pertains to military weaponry and is difficult to apply to civilians, due to dissimilarities in wound contamination and wounding potential of firearms and ammunition. Gunshot injuries in civilians have more focal injury patterns and should be considered distinct entities.Keywords
This publication has 82 references indexed in Scilit:
- Penetrating abdominal injuries: management controversiesScandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2009
- Surgical management of penetrating pulmonary injuriesScandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2009
- Nonoperative management of abdominal gunshot woundsAnnals of Emergency Medicine, 2004
- Predictors of mortality in severely head-injured patients with civilian gunshot wounds: A report from the nih traumatic coma data bankSurgical Neurology, 1992
- The Role of Early Surgical Intervention in Civilian Gunshot Wounds to the HeadThe Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 1992
- The Management of Large Soft-tissue Defects following Close-range Shotgun InjuryThe Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 1990
- Principles of emergency ultrasound and echocardiographyAnnals of Emergency Medicine, 1989
- Shotgun Wound BallisticsThe Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 1988
- Experience with 112 Shotgun Wounds of the ExtremitiesThe Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 1984
- Penetrating craniocerebral missile injuries in the civil disturbances in Northern IrelandBritish Journal of Surgery, 1974