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Shaking and other non-accidental head injuries in children / edited by Robert Minns and J. Keith Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- 1st
- Clinics in developmental medicine, 0069-4835 ; no. 162
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shaken baby syndrome.
- Head--Wounds and injuries.
- Head.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (528 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Mac Keith, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Presents information on shaken baby syndrome. Covering the diagnosis, the long-term disability that results which is also associated with a high degree of life-long physical and intellectual disability.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Alan Craft
- Preface
- 1. Neurological perspectives on non-accidental head injury and whiplash/shaken baby syndrome: an overview / Robert A. Minns and J Keith Brown
- 2. The biomechanics of shaking / Chris N Morison and Robert A. Minns
- 3. The epidemiology of non-accidental head injury / John H Livingston and Anne-Marie Childs
- 4. Non-accidental heal injury in Scotland: the Scottish database / Robert A Minns et al
- 5. Haemorrhagic retinopathy of shaking injury: clinical and pathological aspects / Kristina May, M Andrew Parsons and Robert Doran
- 6. Ultrasound and computed tomography in the diagnosis of non-accidental head injury / Tim Jaspan
- 7. Initial and sequential MRI in non-accidental head injury / Maeve McPhillips
- 8. Skeletal injuries / Stephanie Mackenzie
- 9. Mechanisms and management of subdural haemorrhage / Jonathan Punt
- 10. Non-surgical treatment of acute encephalopathies / K Kamath Tallur, Robert A Minns and J Keith Brown
- 11. The neuropathology of non-accidental head injury / Jeanne E Bell
- 12 Outcome and prognosis of non-accidental head injury in infants / Robert A Minns, Patricia A Jones and Karen M Barlow
- 13. Child protection and the prevention of abuse / Jacqueline YQ Mok
- 14. Shaken baby syndrome and police procedure / Phillip Wheeler
- 15. Legal aspects of shaken baby syndrome / Cathy Cobley
- 16. Assessment and decision-making in non-accidental head injury cases: a social work perspective / Elaine Ennis
- Glossary / Nina Punt
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781907655654
- 1907655654
- 9781898683711
- 1898683719
- OCLC:
- 929120065
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