infant abusive head trauma
Infant Abusive Head Trauma in a Military Cohort
... In the adjusted model, infant charac- teristics associated with substantiated or probable AHT (n = 265) included presence of a birth defect, male sex, and preterm birth. The odds of sub- stantiated or probable AHT ...
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Infant abusive head trauma prevention: acceptability of the Period of PURPLE Crying® program in far north Queensland, Australia
... As is evident in Table 1 all interviewees endorsed the suggestion that an intervention to help prevent infant AHT would be valuable. The level of self-reported awareness of infant AHT amongst interviewees ...
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Limitations of T2*–Gradient Recalled Echo and Susceptibility Weighted Imaging in Characterizing Chronic Subdural Hemorrhage in Infant Survivors of Abusive Head Trauma
... This 4-month-old boy was evaluated for increasing head circum- ference and was subsequently found to have bilateral subdural hematomas on NCCT (Fig 4). Child protective services evaluation raised concern for ...
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End-of-Life Decisions in Abusive Head Trauma
... was accused of child abuse when his 4- week-old infant presented with clinical fi ndings suggestive of AHT. The infant was irreversibly comatose and in a persistent vegetative state. Juvenile court granted ...
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Parenchymal Brain Laceration as a Predictor of Abusive Head Trauma
... proved to have experienced AHT, re- ported their cranial sonographic find- ings of cerebral contusional tears. Frontoparietal and posterior frontal lo- cations of the tears were most common, and SDH was commonly ...
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Parent Education by Maternity Nurses and Prevention of Abusive Head Trauma
... the infant had been born during the control or intervention pe- riod and lived within the initiative’s catchment area at the time of admis- ...of abusive head injury resulting from shaking only if ...
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Preventing Abusive Head Trauma Among Infants and Young Children: A Hospital-Based, Parent Education Program
... violent infant shaking, which suggests that parents need only to be reminded at the appropriate time, ie, the child’s birth, and the message needs to be retained only for a short period to be ...violent ...
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Clinical comparison of ocular and systemic findings in diagnosed cases of abusive and non-abusive head trauma
... In addition to ocular findings, neurological conditions such as loss of consciousness, presence of seizures and SDHs have high correlations with AHT as found in this study. SDHs were present in 29 of the 30 AHT patients ...
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Diagnostic Performance of Ultrafast Brain MRI for Evaluation of Abusive Head Trauma
... MATERIALS AND METHODS Following institutional review board ap- proval, a prospective study was per- formed from March 2014 through March 2015, evaluating the diagnostic performance of an ufMRI of the brain performed at a ...
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Subdural Hygromas in Abusive Head Trauma: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Forensic Implications
... of abusive head trauma? CT and MR imaging represent important tools for the diagnosis of abusive head trauma in living ...infant’s head is indispensable after initial CT ...
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Abusive Head Trauma in Children: A Comparison of Male and Female Perpetrators
... The perpetrators’ ages ranged from 16 to 60 years (median: 30 years). The me- dian age for female perpetrators was 34 years, which was significantly higher than the median age for males (27 years; P ⫽ .001). Biological ...
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Abusive Head Trauma in Infants and Children
... describe abusive head trauma inflicted on infants and young ...with abusive head trauma compel us to modify our terminology to keep pace with our understanding of pathologic ...
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Abusive Head Trauma in Infants and Children
... on infant head trauma, a number of biomechanical models have been used to assess the impact of various force parameters on the infant head and ...of infant brain injuries, ...
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Validation of the Pittsburgh Infant Brain Injury Score for Abusive Head Trauma
... specificity, NPV, and PPV were calculated for brain abnormalities in general rather than for AHT in particular. Importantly, PIBIS appears to be able to identify infants with both atraumatic and traumatic abnormalities. ...
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1567.pdf
... Methods: Using ICD-9 codes, we identified all children less than 3 years old admitted to the North Carolina Children’s Hospital Pediatric Intensive Care Unit with traumatic brain injury between 2005 and 2010. Demographic ...
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Outcomes for Children Hospitalized With Abusive Versus Noninflicted Abdominal Trauma
... with abusive inju- ries often present to the hospital with absent or misleading histories, as the caregiver either does not know what happened or does not want others to ...inal trauma hospitalizations, ...
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External Validation of the PediBIRN Clinical Prediction Rule for Abusive Head Trauma
... head injuries at 5 Australian and New Zealand tertiary pediatric centers. Possible AHT was identified by clinician suspicion, epidemiology codes, or a high-risk group (<3 years of age, admitted, abnormal ...
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Characteristics That Distinguish Accidental From Abusive Injury in Hospitalized Young Children With Head Trauma
... with head trauma over a 2- year period, we found that RHs were seen significantly more often in children with abusive head trauma than those with accidental head ...accidental ...
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National, Regional, and State Abusive Head Trauma: Application of the CDC Algorithm
... OBJECTIVE: To examine national, regional, and state abusive head trauma (AHT) trends using child hospital discharge data by applying a new coding algorithm developed by the Centers for D[r] ...
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Head Trauma for the Pediatrician
... the knowledge of a fracture leads to an alteration in medical management, documentation is impor- tant. For example, a depressed fracture greater than a few millimeters requires surgical[r] ...
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