Air Gun Injuries in Children - A Near Miss!

Tejaswini Girish; Jayateertha Joshi; Sowmini Padmanabh Kamath; Sadashiva Rao

doi:10.4103/jiaps.jiaps_75_23

Air Gun Injuries in Children - A Near Miss!

J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg. 2023 Sep-Oct;28(5):442-444. doi: 10.4103/jiaps.jiaps_75_23. Epub 2023 Sep 5.

Authors

Tejaswini Girish¹, Jayateertha Joshi^{2

3}, Sowmini Padmanabh Kamath⁴, Sadashiva Rao⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of General Surgery, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
² Department of Pediatric Surgery, Father Muller Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
³ Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
⁵ Department of Paediatric Surgery, Regional Advanced Paediatric Care Centre, Wenlock District Hospital, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.

Abstract

Air guns that are employed for protection and entertainment/sporting events can have accidentally harmful consequences. We report three examples of air gun injuries in the pediatric population with injuries, which could be potentially fatal.

Keywords: Child; firearms; gunshot; wounds.

Publication types

Case Reports