RT Book, Section
A1 Cooper, Arthur
A1 Taylor, Leslie Ann
A1 Merten, David
A2 Ziegler, Moritz M.
A2 Azizkhan, Richard G.
A2 Allmen, Daniel von
A2 Weber, Thomas R.
SR Print(0)
ID 1100438143
T1 Child Abuse
T2 Operative Pediatric Surgery, 2e
YR 2014
FD 2014
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-162723-8
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1100438143
RD 2024/04/20
AB Physicians  and  other  health,  education,  social  service,  and  public  safety  providers  are  mandated  by  law  to  report  suspected  child  abuse  to  local  child  protective  authorities.Child  battering  remains  the  most  common  cause  of  homicide  in  infants  and  toddlers.The  term  “shaken  baby  syndrome”  has  been  superseded  by  the  term  “abusive  head  trauma”,  recognizing  the  importance  of  factors  such  as  detailed  mechanistic  history  and  developmental  age  and  stage  in  addition  to  classic  physical  findings,  radiographic  imaging,  and  laboratory  data.Unique  “patterns”  of  body  system  injury  often  represent  findings  suspicious  for  child  abuse.Any  unexplained  alteration  in  mental  status  may  indicate  child  abuse  due  to  inflicted  closed  head  injury.Pediatric  surgeons  have  a  personal,  professional,  and  public  responsibility  to  provide  testimony  in  court  when  called  upon  to  do  so,  as  either  an  expert,  or  a  witness  to  the  facts.