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Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma Pocket Atlas, Volume 1: Traumatic Injuries offers complete guidelines for identifying and responding to pediatric abusive head trauma, all in a portable format. Written in mostly non-technical language and conveniently sized, this guide can easily be referenced at any point during the identification or response process. This complete overview of abusive head trauma includes comprehensive information on common presentation and possible outcomes of abusive head trauma. It also details the many different kinds of injuries that may result from abusive head trauma, including extracranial injuries and scalp trauma, intracranial injuries with and without associated bleeding, and fractures. This pocket guide is supplemented with more than 150 radiologic images, offering a perfect point of reference for identifying the various kinds of injuries one may face in investigating abusive head trauma. This atlas also provides readers with concrete analyses of a variety of traumatic head injuries in children. The comprehensive nature of Pediatric Head Trauma Pocket Atlas: Traumatic Injuries makes it an ideal resource for medical, social work, and law enforcement professionals in need of a quick, comprehensive field reference on abusive head trauma.

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The Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma 2-volume set is a comprehensive review of the leadingcause of physical abuse deaths in the United States today. It offers an in-depth evaluation of victim clinical presentation, usual physical examination, laboratory, and neuroradiologic findings, and outcomes. It also explores reasonable differential diagnoses and provides illustrative cases. This is an outstanding reference for child abuse pediatricians and for those professionals such as pediatric neurologists, child development specialists, and generalists who care for AHT survivors often afflicted with complex medical problems. Debra Esernio-Jenssen, MD, FAAP Professor of Pediatrics Child Protection Team University of Florida at Gainseville Gainseville, Florida This text contains concise and up-to-date discussions of facets and controversial aspects of abusive head trauma (AHT). As an example, Dr. Spivack briefly and in a very understandable manner discusses the basics of AHT biomechanics and injury evolution. Chapters on injury types discuss the basic background, causation, and treatment of AHT injuries while also documenting related conditions and possible abuse mimics. Dr. Fingarson's chapter on hypoxic-ischemic injuries nicely discusses causes and the radiologic and clinical evolution of these injuries, accompanied by prototypic images. Real injuries, such as venous sinus thrombosis, which are often within the legal venue, inappropriately, proposed as causing head injury findings as an alternative to AHT are succinctly summarized by Dr. Siffermann, while noting the lack of evidence that sinus thrombosis causes subdural hemorrhage. For a quick reference to multiple aspects of AHT, this book deserves a place on your bookshelf. Kenneth W. Feldman, MD Department of Pediatrics Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center Seattle, Washington

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Lori D. Frasier, MD, FAAP graduated from the University of Utah College, USA of Medicine in 1995, completed her pediatric residency at the Children's Hospital and Medical Center/University of Washington in Seattle and held a fellowship at the University of Washington's Sexual Assault Center, USA.

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