बैलिस्टिक आघात

Key facts

Specialty

Emergency medicine , trauma surgery

Symptoms

Pain , deformity , bleeding

Complications

PTSD , lead poisoning , hypovolemic shock , nerve injury , wound infection , sepsis , brain damage , gangrene , disability , amputation

Causes

Guns

Risk factors

Illegal drug trade , ignorance of firearm safety, substance misuse , alcohol abuse, poor mental health , firearm laws , social and economic differences, some occupations, suicide attempt , war

Prevention

Firearm safety , crime prevention

Treatment

Trauma care

Frequency

1 million (interpersonal violence in 2015)

Deaths

251,000 (2016)

via Wikipedia infobox

• Clinical update: gunshot wound ballistics.