ReviewEuropean journal of pediatrics2012
Educational paper: Abusive Head Trauma part I. Clinical aspects.
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- Effectiveness of an Educational Video in Maternity Wards to Prevent Self-Reported Shaking and Smothering during the First Week of Age: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2020Trial
- Non-traumatic bilateral subdural hematoma in a 1-year-old child with optic glioma: a rare case report and literature review.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2026Article
- The Development of a Wearable-Based System for Detecting Shaken Baby Syndrome Using Machine Learning Models.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: Models, Therapeutics, and Outcomes.Advances in neurobiology · 2024Review
- Early Diagnosis of Abusive Head Trauma to Avoid Repetitive Shaking Events.Global pediatric health · 2022Article
- Abusive head trauma: experience improves diagnosis.Neuroradiology · 2021Article
- Shaken Baby Syndrome: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Features in Abusive Head Trauma.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Implementation of a brain injury screen MRI for infants at risk for abusive head trauma.Pediatric radiology · 2020Article
- Pediatric Nonaccidental Trauma: Experience at a Level 1 Trauma Center.International journal of pediatrics · 2020Article
- The efficacy and safety of burr-hole craniotomy without continuous drainage for chronic subdural hematoma and subdural hygroma in children under 2 years of age.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2016Article
- Occurrence of subdural hematomas in Dutch glutaric aciduria type 1 patients.European journal of pediatrics · 2016Article
- Imaging of Abusive Trauma.Indian journal of pediatrics · 2016Review
- Development of a screening MRI for infants at risk for abusive head trauma.Pediatric radiology · 2016Article
- The impact of an educational intervention on knowledge about infant crying and abusive head trauma.Paediatrics & child health · 2016Article
- Serum D-dimer concentrations are increased after pediatric traumatic brain injury.The Journal of pediatrics · 2015Article
- Encephalopathy and death in infants with abusive head trauma is due to hypoxic-ischemic injury following local brain trauma to vital brainstem centers.International journal of legal medicine · 2015Article
- Age determination of subdural hematomas: survey among radiologists.Emergency radiology · 2014Article
- Non-accidental trauma in pediatric patients: a review of epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment.Translational pediatrics · 2014Review
- Detection, diagnosis, and prevention of child abuse: the role of the pediatrician.European journal of pediatrics · 2012Review
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
unlabelledAbusive Head Trauma (AHT) refers to the combination of findings formerly described as shaken baby syndrome. Although these findings can be caused by shaking, it has become clear that in many cases there may have been impact trauma as well. Therefore a less specific term has been adopted by the American Academy of Pediatrics. AHT is a relatively common cause of childhood neurotrauma with an estimated incidence of 14-40 cases per 100,000 children under the age of 1 year. About 15-23% of these children die within hours or days after the incident. Studies among AHT survivors demonstrate that approximately one-third of the children are severely disabled, one-third of them are moderately disabled and one-third have no or only mild symptoms. Other publications suggest that neurological problems can occur after a symptom-free interval and that half of these children have IQs below the 10th percentile. Clinical findings are depending on the definitions used, but AHT should be considered in all children with neurological signs and symptoms especially if no or only mild trauma is described. Subdural haematomas are the most reported finding. The only feature that has been identified discriminating AHT from accidental injury is apnoea.
conclusionAHT should be approached with a structured approach, as in any other (potentially lethal) disease. The clinician can only establish this diagnosis if he/she has knowledge of the signs and symptoms of AHT, risk factors, the differential diagnosis and which additional investigations to perform, the more so since parents seldom will describe the true state of affairs spontaneously.
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