American Association for the Surgery of Trauma statement on firearm injuries

Erik Streib¹, David Blake, A Britton Christmas+13

• ¹From the Indiana University School of Medicine (E.S.), Indianapolis, Indiana; United States Air Force (D.B.), Norfolk, Virginia; Carolinas Medical Center (A.B.C.), Charlotte, North Carolina; UH Case Medical Center (K.C.), Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Beachwood, Ohio; UC Davis Medical Center (C.C.), Sacramento, California; South Shore Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital (R.P.D.), Hingham, Massachusetts; UT Southwestern Medical Center (A.L.E.), Dallas, Texas; Miami Valley Hospital (A.P.E.), Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio; Loyola University Medical Center (R.G.), Maywood, Illinois; Good Samaritan Hospital (J.G.H.), San Jose, California; JHS Cook County Hospital (K.J.), Chicago, Illinois; University of Nevada School of Medicine (D.A.K.), Las Vegas, Nevada; Beacon Trauma & Surgical Services (S.G.T.), South Bend, Indiana; and the Center for Surgery and Public Health (Z.C.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts.