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Firearm Deaths Impacting Older Adults.
J Community Health
January 2025
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA.
Each year in the United States (U.S.) thousands of older adults die from firearm-related injuries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPatients that survive firearm injuries frequently require follow-up care. This study aims to explore demographic characteristics of patients presenting to the emergency department for post-firearm injury care and to understand the reasons for their return visits. This was a retrospective chart review of all emergency department and readmission patient encounters for post-firearm injury care during the study period, January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2022, at an urban safety net hospital.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe objective of this Scientific Opinion is to assess the hazards and welfare consequences associated with the slaughter of horses for human consumption. The entire slaughter procedure, from arrival at the slaughterhouse until death, is divided into three phases: Phase 1 - pre-stunning, Phase 2 - stunning and Phase 3 - bleeding. Phase 1 includes the following processes (in chronological order): (a) arrival, (b) unloading of the animals from the vehicle, (c) lairage, (d) handling and moving to the stunning area and (e) restraint before application of the stunning method.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHorses of different ages may have to be killed on-farm for purposes other than slaughter (where slaughter is defined as killing for human consumption) either individually (i.e. on-farm killing of unproductive, injured or terminally ill animals) or on a large-scale (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCaught in the Crossfire: A Single Institution's 10-Year Experience with Pediatric Firearm Injury.
J Am Coll Surg
January 2025
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Surgery, Dallas, TX.
Introduction: Pediatric firearm-related injuries are now the leading cause of death among children in the United States. We sought to characterize the experience of a large free-standing children's hospital treating children with firearm injuries.
Methods: We reviewed all 2012-2022 gunshot wound encounters using the institutional trauma database of an urban Level 1 pediatric trauma center in Texas.
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