Shaken Baby Syndrome
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The inertial loading thresholds for infant head injury are of profound medico-legal and safety-engineering significance. Injurious experimentation with infants is impossible, and physical and computational biomechanical modelling has been... more
Background: Among the causes of non-accidental head injury (NAHI), shaken baby syndrome (SBS) is difficult to diagnose and is associated with retinal hemorrhages (RH). Description: To identify findings and patterns of RH specific to SBS,... more
The findings of studies on the frequency of violence against children imply that many cases go undetected. Selective literature review based on a search of different databases for publications on all types of violence against children,... more
Shaken baby syndrome is the most common cause of deaths caused by abuse of children or serious neurological injuries. Cerebral hemorrhages and intraocular hemorrhages are important determinants in the diagnosis stage of the baby. It was... more
Introduction Falls are a common chief complaint among children seeking medical attention in emergency departments and are the leading cause of injuries requiring hospitalisation. Falls are also a frequent excuse to conceal cases of... more
An epidemic of accusations against parents and baby sitters of Shaken Baby Syndrome is sweeping the developed world. The United States and the United Kingdom are in the forefront of such questionable practice. Brain (mainly subdural, less... more
Çocuk istismarı ve ihmali tüm dünyada artış gösteren ve her yıl milyonlarca insanı olumsuz bir biçimde etkileyen sosyal bir sorun olmasının yanında aynı zamanda sağlık problemi olarak da kabul edilmektedir. Öyle ki, istismar ve ihmal... more
The purpose of this study was to document the hand-held spectral domain optical coherence tomography (HHSD-OCT, Bioptigen, Durham, NC) findings in shaken-baby syndrome (SBS). The nonaccidental trauma in SBS has been associated with... more
My empirical study, which examines neuroscience evidence in 800 criminal cases over the course of two decades, is the first to determine how, when, and why victim brain scan evidence is introduced and used in court. My study reveals that... more
We estimated the disability-adjusted life-year (DALY) burden of abusive head trauma (AHT) at ages 0 to 4 years in the United States. DALYs are computed by summing years of productive life that survivors lost to disability plus life-years... more
Shaken baby syndrome is evaluated in the context of its historical evolution and its veracity in referring to causal injury mechanisms. A rational assessment of the injury causation and consequent pathological states associated with the... more