This week on Clear Lake Connections Podcast presented by UTMB Health: Meet Dr. Bindi Naik-Mathuria, Division Chief of Pediatric Surgery in the Department of Surgery at UTMB, and the author of the publication “Defining the Full Spectrum of Pediatric Firearm Injury and Death in the United States: It’s Even Worse Than We Think”
In this week’s episode, Dr. Naik-Mathuria tells the listeners all about her recent publication on pediatric firearm injury and deaths. She discusses how firearm injury is now the leading cause of death in children and adolescents in the United States. Lastly, Dr. Naik-Mathuria shares the different categories that most of these incidents fall under and steps to take for prevention especially safe storage.