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Diagnosing Abusive Head Trauma: Traumatic Injuries and Medical Mimics is a comprehensive review of the most common cause of physical abuse mortality in the United States today. It offers an in-depth evaluation of victim presentation in the clinical setting and usual 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 abusive head trauma survivors. Diagnosing Abusive Head Trauma comprehensively covers the diagnosis of abusive head trauma in children. Its first section provides an overview of abusive head trauma and lists possible outcomes in cases of abusive head trauma. Its second section delves into specific injuries, including: Extracranial injuries Scalp trauma Intracranial injuries Fractures The third and final section of Diagnosing Abusive Head Trauma discusses numerous medical mimics that may be confused with abusive head trauma, including birth trauma, metabolic disorders, autoimmune conditions, oncologic mimics, and infectious diseases. This text contains up-to-date examinations of abusive head trauma to aid frontline professionals in the recognition and treatment of this most pernicious form of abuse. Diagnosing Abusive Head Trauma is a vital resource for professionals and students in the fields of medicine, nursing, social service, law, and criminal justice. To better serve the victims of abusive head trauma, this authoritative reference will assist non-medical professionals in formulating more effective methods of inquiry, investigation, and prosecution, and it will help medical professionals to provide the best of care and treatment to those in need.
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About the Author:
Lori D. Frasier, MD, FAAP
Lori Frasier is the medical director of Medical Assessment at the Center for Safe and Healthy Families at Primary Children's Medical Center and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, Utah. Formerly, she was an assistant professor of Child Health and the director of the Child Protection Program and Division of General Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Frasier graduated from the University of Utah College of Medicine in 1995, completed her pediatric residency at the Children's Hospital and Medical Center/University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, and held a fellowship at the University of Washington's Sexual Assault Center. Dr. Frasier has authored several articles and chapters and lectured locally, regionally, and nationally on subjects related to child maltreatment.
Barbara Knox, MD
Dr. Knox s mission for the UW Children s Hospital Child Protection Program is to ensure the safety and well-being of infants, children and adolescents from throughout Wisconsin, Northern Illinois and Eastern Iowa. She cares for children who have been or are suspected of being victims of physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect and factitious illness by proxy. She also provides medical review of child abuse cases for social services agencies, law enforcement and prosecutors. Her research interests include use of telemedicine for assistance with remote-guided colposcopic exams, and telemedicine for regional child abuse evaluations.
Francois Maurice Luyet, MD
Francois M. Luyet is a board certified Pediatrician. After graduating from University of Geneva Medical School, Dr. Luyet completed his residency at Montreal Children s Hospital in 1975. He is currently committed to locum tenens work at Marshfield Clinic in Wausau Wisconsin and Minocqua Wisconsin along with urgent care work at the University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation. Dr. Luyet has had experience in group and individual pediatric care, newborn nursery care, and child abuse pediatrics. He has served overseas on medical volunteering trips to Peru, Ethiopia, and Uganda.
Tanya S. Hinds, MD, FAAP
Dr. Tanya Hinds is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC and a Board Certified Child Abuse Pediatrician. She is also an Attending in Child Abuse Pediatrics at the Child and Adolescent Protection Center at Children s National Medical Center. In addition to patient care, Dr. Hinds serves as the Course Director of the Child Abuse Pediatrics Medical Student Elective, a member of the Residency Selection Committee, and a member of the Trauma Committee at Children s National. Dr. Hinds is an active participant in the District of Columbia s Multidisciplinary Team on Child Abuse. She is also a member of several national organizations including the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Child Abuse and Neglect, the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, and the Ray E. Helfer Society. Dr. Hinds is part of several child maltreatment research efforts at Children s National, lectures locally and nationally, and frequently testifies in child abuse cases in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.
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- PublisherSTM Learning, Inc.
- Publication date2030
- ISBN 10 1878060406
- ISBN 13 9781878060402
- BindingPerfect Paperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages438
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