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A Practical Guide to the Evaluation of Child Physical Abuse and NeglectAbusive Head Trauma

A Practical Guide to the Evaluation of Child Physical Abuse and Neglect: Abusive Head Trauma [AHT is any injury to the skull or intracranial contents of an infant or child younger than 5 years caused by inflicted blunt impact, violent shaking, or both (Parks et al., Pediatric abusive head trauma: recommended definitions for public health surveillance and research. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.ncdsv.org/images/CDC_PediatricAbusiveHeadTraumaRecommendedDefinitionsPHSurvAndResearch_2012.pdf. Accessed July 2017, 2012). The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has recommended that the term shaken baby syndrome be replaced in medical records with the broader term abusive head trauma, which allows for consideration of multiple mechanisms of injury in any child (Christian and Block, Pediatrics 123(5):1409–1411, 2009).] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Practical Guide to the Evaluation of Child Physical Abuse and NeglectAbusive Head Trauma

Editors: Giardino, Angelo P.; Lyn, Michelle A.; Giardino, Eileen R.
Mendez, Donna; Endom, Erin E.
A Practical Guide to the Evaluation of Child Physical Abuse and Neglect — Dec 12, 2018
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
ISBN
978-3-030-00634-1
Pages
221 –249
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-00635-8_6
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Abstract

[AHT is any injury to the skull or intracranial contents of an infant or child younger than 5 years caused by inflicted blunt impact, violent shaking, or both (Parks et al., Pediatric abusive head trauma: recommended definitions for public health surveillance and research. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.ncdsv.org/images/CDC_PediatricAbusiveHeadTraumaRecommendedDefinitionsPHSurvAndResearch_2012.pdf. Accessed July 2017, 2012). The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has recommended that the term shaken baby syndrome be replaced in medical records with the broader term abusive head trauma, which allows for consideration of multiple mechanisms of injury in any child (Christian and Block, Pediatrics 123(5):1409–1411, 2009).]

Published: Dec 12, 2018

Keywords: Abusive head trauma; Intracranial injury; Inflicted injury; Non-inflicted injury

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