Firearm injuries to public safety professionals and military personnel: integrative review

Abstract Objective: to systematize the bibliographic production on the occurrence of firearm injuries (FAI) among public safety professionals, including police officers and military personnel. Methods: integrative review carried out in Brazilian and international electronic bibliographic databases (Brazilian Virtual Health Library, Scopus, Web of Science and Pubmed), without time or geographic specification. Results: thirty-one articles were found according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. There was a growing increase of publications between 1976 and 2016, most of them in English and published in health sciences journals. FAI were the mainspring of injury among police officers, most frequent in male professionals, aged range 30. The riskiest circumstances were: arrest actions and clashes with criminals; attendance to police calls to verify order disturbance; and in war situations. There are few studies discussing the physical repercussions of FAI for the public safety workers’ professional practice.