PEDIATRIC FIREARM INJURIES AND FATALITIES. THE CLINICIAN’S GUIDE TO POLICIES AND APPROACHES TO FIREARM HARM PREVENTION

•Children and Firearms: Inevitable Interactions or Needless Calamities?
•Access to Firearms and Youth Suicide in the US: Implications for Clinical Interventions
•Firearm Homicide and Assaults
•Unintentional Firearm Injuries in Children
•School Shootings: No Longer Unexpected
•Firearm Violence in the Pediatric Population: An International Perspective
•Talking with Families: Interventions for Health Care Providers
•Emergency Department and Hospital-Based Interventions
•Depression and Means Restriction
•Caring for Pediatric Patients after Gun Violence
•Violence Intervention Advocacy Program and Community Interventions
•Safety Devices for Firearms
•Firearm Legislation and Advocacy
•The Clinician Guide to Firearm Legislative Advocacy
•Future Directions for Firearm Injury Intervention, Policy, and Research.

Pediatric firearm injuries are a significant public and medical community issue. Clinicians are on the front line caring for children, adolescents, and their families after a firearm injury or death. They also represent the best hopes for preventing firearm injuries to children and adolescents in the future. In circumstances of injury and violence they provide medical, mental health, and rehabilitative care. They also provide anticipatory guidance to prevent firearm injuries and deaths and should have a strong voice in the local, state and national discussions about firearm policies for injury prevention.
This book provides an overview of the epidemiology and risk factors for firearm injuries in children and adolescents. It will serve as a practical clinical guide for firearm injury prevention at the individual, state and national levels. The beginning of the book focuses on the epidemiology of firearm injuries, primarily centered in the United States, but also including an international perspective. It addresses the role of firearms in suicide, homicide, and domestic violence, and examines mass shootings as well. The second half of the book focuses on preventive measures for firearm injuries including primary care and hospital-based interventions, community interventions, and state and federal legislation. It concludes with a background on the history of firearm research in the United States and future directions for decreasing firearm injuries. The book’s overall focus is on public policy and the role of clinicians and public health advocates, while simultaneously offering practical tools and information about the clinician’s role in intervention.
Written by experts in the field, Pediatric Firearm Injuries and Fatalities is an ideal resource for pediatric, adolescent medicine, emergency medicine, primary care and family medicine clinicians. At the same time, it appeals to all clinicians and public health advocates wishing to develop a better understanding of pediatric firearm injuries and a path forward to decreasing them.

Features
• An ideal resource for both clinicians and public health advocates to develop a better understanding about pediatric firearm injuries in the U.S.
• The book will address the role of firearms in suicide, homicide, and domestic violence.
• The book will conclude with a background on the history of firearm research in the U.S. and future directions for decreasing firearm injuries in the U.S.
• Will provide an overview of the etiology of firearm injuries in children, adolescents, and young adults and act as a practical clinical guide for firearm injury prevention at the individual patient, state and national levels.
• Written by leading researchers in the field of pediatric and adolescent firearm prevention and clinical intervention