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Titolo: | Shaking and other non-accidental head injuries in children / / edited by Robert Minns and J. Keith Brown |
Pubblicazione: | London, : Mac Keith, 2005 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (528 p.) |
Disciplina: | 618.9209751044 |
Soggetto topico: | Shaken baby syndrome |
Head - Wounds and injuries | |
Altri autori: | MinnsR. A (Robert Anthony) BrownJ. Keith |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Shaking and other non-accidental head injuries in children |
ISBN: | 1-907655-65-4 |
1-898683-71-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910818172803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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