Patterns of pediatric firearm-related ocular trauma in the United States
JAMA Ophthalmology Oct 21, 2019
Weiss R, et al. - Using deidentified data from the National Trauma Data Bank, the largest national registry of hospitalized trauma cases in the US, researchers conducted this retrospective analysis to assess the epidemiologic pattern of pediatric firearm-related ocular injuries. A total of 8,715 ocular injuries associated with firearms have been reported. Of these injuries, 1,972 occurred in pediatric patients, most of whom were male and adolescents, with a mean (SD) age of 15.2 (5) years. Home and street were common locations of injury. Open wound of the eyeball and ocular adnexa, orbital injuries or fractures, and contusion of the eye or adnexa were the most common types of firearm-related ocular injuries. The authors discovered that predominantly sight-threatening and associated with traumatic brain injury were pediatric firearm-related ocular injuries between 2008 and 2014. If the possible risk factors (sex, age, race/ethnicity, and injury intention) can be verified for 2015 to 2019, such results can be helpful in developing strategies to avoid pediatric firearm-related ocular injuries.
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