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Shaken Baby Syndrome (shaken + baby_syndrome)

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NURSING FOR WOMENS HEALTH, Issue 1 2010
Elaine Croucher
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Preventing Shaken Baby Syndrome: A Multidisciplinary Response to Six Tragedies

NURSING FOR WOMENS HEALTH, Issue 4 2009
Lola Meskauskas RN
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Shaken Baby Syndrome: Facts, Education, and Advocacy

NURSING FOR WOMENS HEALTH, Issue 3 2008
APRN-BC, Linda Lewin PhD
First page of article [source]

Practitioner Review: Beyond shaken baby syndrome: what influences the outcomes for infants following traumatic brain injury?

THE JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY AND ALLIED DISCIPLINES, Issue 9 2010
Rebecca Ashton
Background:, Traumatic brain injury (TBI) in infancy is relatively common, and is likely to lead to poorer outcomes than injuries sustained later in childhood. While the headlines have been grabbed by infant TBI caused by abuse, often known as shaken baby syndrome, the evidence base for how to support children following TBI in infancy is thin. These children are likely to benefit from ongoing assessment and intervention, because brain injuries sustained in the first year of life can influence development in different ways over many years. Methods:, A literature search was conducted and drawn together into a review aimed at informing practitioners working with children who had a brain injury in infancy. As there are so few evidence-based studies specifically looking at children who have sustained a TBI in infancy, ideas are drawn from a range of studies, including different age ranges and difficulties other than traumatic brain injury. Results:, This paper outlines the issues around measuring outcomes for children following TBI in the first year of life. An explanation of outcomes which are more likely for children following TBI in infancy is provided, in the areas of mortality; convulsions; endocrine problems; sensory and motor skills; cognitive processing; language; academic attainments; executive functions; and psychosocial difficulties. The key factors influencing these outcomes are then set out, including severity of injury; pre-morbid situation; genetics; family factors and interventions. Conclusions:, Practitioners need to take a long-term, developmental view when assessing, understanding and supporting children who have sustained a TBI in their first year of life. The literature suggests some interventions which may be useful in prevention, acute care and longer-term rehabilitation, and further research is needed to assess their effectiveness. [source]

Retinal haemorrhages in shaken baby syndrome

ACTA OPHTHALMOLOGICA, Issue 4 2009
Matti Kontkanen
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

The role of health professionals in preventing non-accidental head injury

CHILD ABUSE REVIEW, Issue 6 2003
Alison Kemp
Abstract The aim of this paper is to re,ect on the role that the health professions can play in preventing a serious form of physical child abuse. Using research data from a case series study on non-accidental head injury, or shaken baby syndrome, some aspects of child healthcare are reviewed for their potential for prevention. In child protection in the UK, more resources are put into the diagnosis and assessment of child abuse than into interventions designed for prevention. The ,eld of prevention is generally lacking in a theoretical underpinning or systematic means of evaluation and yet the 1996 National Commission of Inquiry into the Prevention of Child Abuse concluded that child abuse ,can almost always be prevented provided the will to do so is there' (National Commission of Inquiry into the Prevention of Child Abuse, 1996). This requires major changes to the way society views and protects children. The focus in this paper is on the very young, mainly babies under 6 months of age. It calls for a lowering of the threshold with which health professionals view a baby's illness for secondary prevention of non-accidental head injury and the need to review approaches to primary prevention, both from the UK and abroad, in order to implement a systematic means to primary prevention. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

,The evidence base for retinal haemorrhages in shaken baby syndrome'

DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE & CHILD NEUROLOGY, Issue 10 2008
Manoj V Parulekar MS FRCS
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Dural haemorrhage in non-traumatic infant deaths: does it explain the bleeding in ,shaken baby syndrome'?

NEUROPATHOLOGY & APPLIED NEUROBIOLOGY, Issue 1 2003
J. F. Geddes
J. F. Geddes, R. C. Tasker, A. K. Hackshaw, C. D. Nickols, G. G. W. Adams, H. L. Whitwell and I. Scheimberg (2003) Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology 29, 14,22 Dural haemorrhage in non-traumatic infant deaths: does it explain the bleeding in ,shaken baby syndrome'? A histological review of dura mater taken from a post-mortem series of 50 paediatric cases aged up to 5 months revealed fresh bleeding in the dura in 36/50, the bleeding ranging from small perivascular haemorrhages to extensive haemorrhage which had ruptured onto the surface of the dura. Severe hypoxia had been documented clinically in 27 of the 36 cases (75%). In a similar review of three infants presenting with classical ,shaken baby syndrome', intradural haemorrhage was also found, in addition to subdural bleeding, and we believe that our findings may have relevance to the pathogenesis of some infantile subdural haemorrhage. Recent work has shown that, in a proportion of infants with fatal head injury, there is little traumatic brain damage and that the significant finding is craniocervical injury, which causes respiratory abnormalities, severe global hypoxia and brain swelling, with raised intracranial pressure. We propose that, in such infants, a combination of severe hypoxia, brain swelling and raised central venous pressure causes blood to leak from intracranial veins into the subdural space, and that the cause of the subdural bleeding in some cases of infant head injury is therefore not traumatic rupture of bridging veins, but a phenomenon of immaturity. Hypoxia with brain swelling would also account for retinal haemorrhages, and so provide a unified hypothesis for the clinical and neuropathological findings in cases of infant head injury, without impact or considerable force being necessary. [source]