Trauma and Injury Prevention Newsroom

December 15, 2022

Firearm Disqualifying Behaviors, Individual and Public Health

Download the PDF By Christopher Barsotti MD.

December 15, 2022

ACEP TIPS & Peds EM Section Modified ASK Discharge Instructions for use in Pediatric Emergency departments

Access files that can be downloaded and printed to be distributed to parents upon discharge from the emergency department.

December 15, 2022

ACEP-ONDCP Webinar on Naloxone

Poisoning or drug overdose recently surpassed motor vehicle crash as the number one cause of injury-related death in the United States. There has been a rapid increase in fatal overdose since the mid-...

December 14, 2022

Emergency Department Naloxone Distribution: Key Considerations and Implementation Strategies

Opioid overdose deaths have quadrupled since 1990, and are now a leading cause of injury and death in the united States, killing more people between 25 to 64 years old than motor vehicle accidents. Mo...

October 2, 2020

DC Advocacy Update

On June 4, hundreds of ACEP members participated in a tele-town hall on Gun Violence and Injury Prevention with Representative Seth Moulton (D-MA).

October 2, 2020

Firearm Safety Among Children and Teens (FACTS)

Among children in the United States, firearm-related fatalities are the second leading cause of death and Emergency Physicians have long been on the front line and at the front of firearm injury preve...

October 2, 2020

Keeping the EM Focus on the Health of Human Trafficking Survivors

As we approach ACEP 2018, the ACEP Human Trafficking Work Group (HTWG) would like to provide an update on the activities of this group over the past year. See you in San Diego!

October 2, 2020

Movement Towards Violence as a Health Issue

The Movement Towards Violence as a Health Issue is gaining momentum! As we last reported, The Movement had released a comprehensive framework to address violence from a health-based approach. Now, thi...

October 2, 2020

TIPS Leadership Responds to Deficit in Funding for Gun Violence Prevention Research

Firearm-related victimization, injury and death are among the most urgent public health problems facing our country, but there exists no utilitarian set of solutions because we, as a society, have not...

October 2, 2020

Chair’s Corner

Welcome to the Spring edition of the Trauma and Injury Prevention Section newsletter! Firearm injury prevention has taken center stage as one of America’s most deleterious public health crises.

October 2, 2019

Firearm Safety Among Children and Teens (FACTS): An Update on Activities

Among children in the United States, firearm-related fatalities are the second leading cause of death and Emergency Physicians have long been on the front line and at the front of firearm injury preve...

October 2, 2019

Update: University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center publishes a Michigan Safer Opioid Prescribing Toolkit

On November 1, 2019, the University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center will publish a free, publicly available, web-based toolkit on the safer opioid prescribing practices and opioid overdose preven...

October 2, 2019

Standing AFFIRM for the public health approach to firearm injury

Those of us working on the frontline of emergency medicine are painfully aware that more than 100 lives are lost each day to firearm injury, and that for every life lost, two more are injured.

October 2, 2019

Opioid Overdose Prevention Update

The Emergency Department (ED) is at the forefront of the public health emergency that is the opioid epidemic and often a place where patients come for issues both related and unrelated to opioid use.

October 2, 2019

Chair’s Corner

Firearm injury prevention and opioid overdose prevention have increasingly become the focus of public health and injury prevention efforts within emergency medicine, and broadly across the United Stat...

October 9, 2016

Exertional Heat Stroke

I am writing this while at a conference at the NCAA in Indianapolis. Doug Casa, Ph.D., the foremost authority on exertional heat stroke and director of the Korey Stringer Institute, presented athlete ...

October 9, 2016

Yes, You Can: Physicians, Patients, and Firearms

Physicians have unique opportunities to help prevent firearm violence. Concern has developed that federal and state laws or regulations prohibit physicians from asking or counseling patients about fir...

October 9, 2016

Firearms and Suicide

September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness month, a much-needed opportunity to shed light on and reduce stigma about a leading cause of death. While violent death rates have declined overall s...
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