This episode of PDACast is brought to you by the Center for Injury Research and Policy

and by pediatric emergency medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

Music Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of PDACast.

We are a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike coming to you from the campus of Nationwide Children's Hospital.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It's episode 598. We're calling this one Firearm Injury Prevention, a conversation for every parent. I want to welcome all of you to the program.

We're so happy to have you with us. So we have a really, really important episode for you this week

as we consider firearm-related injuries in children and teenagers.

And it's important because gun injuries are the leading cause of death for kids and teenagers

in America between the ages of 1 and 17.

So just let that sink in for a minute.

More kids and teenagers die from firearm-related injuries than from any other cause,

including car crashes, cancer, poisonings, overdoses, drownings, and heart disease.

And here's the most important point.

Most of these tragic deaths are entirely preventable.

So on this episode of PDACAST, we're going to talk about what firearm injuries look like in kids.

Why risk has increased and, most importantly, what families, clinicians, and communities can do to keep kids safe.

And just right out of the gate, we're not talking about gun control here. We're not saying, oh, we need to get rid of firearms to keep kids safe. And just right out of the gate, we're not talking about gun control here.

We're not saying, oh, we need to get rid of firearms to keep kids safe. You know, it is an important

part of the United States of America to be able to own firearms. How can we do that responsibly?

How can we do that safely so that our kids and teenagers do not suffer injuries or death because of having a firearm in the home.

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