Shaking and other non-accidental head injuries in children

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Minns, R. A. (Robert Anthony), Brown, J. Keith
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Mac Keith, 2005.
Series:Clinics in developmental medicine, no. 162
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Table of 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.