Child Abuse Pocket Atlas Series Volume 3 Head Injuries

Child Abuse Pocket Atlas Series, Volume 3: Head Injuries, the third volume of a new and ongoing series on child abuse, provides professionals in medicine and law enforcement with more than 600 full-color photos and accompanying case studies representing a variety of both abusive and unintentional head injuries in children.

Child Abuse Pocket Atlas Series, Volume 1: Skin Injuries, the first of an ongoing series on child maltreatment, includes 600 full-color photographs of skin injuries in children, with diagnostic case studies written by attending medical professionals.

Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma, Volume 2: Medical Mimics provides in-depth guidelines for the diagnosis of childhood head injuries resembling abusive trauma. This concise pocket guide covers differential diagnoses that may be confused with abusive head trauma, including birth trauma, metabolic disorders, autoimmune conditions, oncologic mimics, and infectious diseases.

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.

Child Abuse Pocket Atlas Series, Volume 4: Investigation, Documentation, and Radiology, part of an ongoing series on child abuse, offers nearly 500 full-color photos detailing proper approaches to crime scene investigation, physical and postmortem examinations, and photodocumentation.

Sexual abuse of children is an especially delicate matter, and each reported case should be treated with exacting care. This new pocket atlas, the second addition to an ongoing series on child abuse, will support medical practitioners and other affiliated sexual assault response providers in identifying and interpreting the physical signs and symptoms of sexual abuse in children.

Abusive Head Trauma in Infants and Children combines all aspects of abusive head trauma cases into one complete reference for clinicians, investigators, prosecutors, and social workers. The text details the application of medical science to the investigation and prosecution of these cases, as well as issues of long-term outcome, developmental and educational needs, and strategies for community-based education and prevention.More than 600 clinical photographs illustrate inflicted head injuries with case studies and multidisciplinary analysis, including discussions of shaken baby syndrome, shaken impact syndrome, differential diagnoses, forensic analysis, autopsies, prosecutorial issues, long-term care of survivors, and the role of social services.This single-volume edition combines the best clinical writing with high-quality photographic content found in color atlases - a wealth of knowledge bound in one concise edition.""The Abusive Head Trauma CD-ROM"" depicts how head injuries occur using 3-D images and animation developed from actual forensic analysis of victimized children. This product is valuable for explaining the complex biomechanics of abusive head injury to investigators, and mandated reporters. Clear up confusion about what is and is not shaken baby syndrome with exacting animations developed by an objective and esteemed pathologist.

Cover -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Current Perspectives on Abusive Head Trauma -- Chapter 2: Epidemiology of Traumatic Brain Injury: Recognizing Unitentional Head Injuries in Children -- Chapter 3: Unintentional Head Injuries: Case Studies -- Chapter 4: Biomechanics -- Chapter 5: Abusive Head Trauma as a Medical Diagnosis -- Chapter 6: Neuroradiology -- Chapter 7: Neuroradiology: Case Studies -- Chapter 8: Neurosurgical Interventions -- Chapter 9: Neurosurgery: Case Studies -- Chapter 10: Ophthalmology -- Chapter 11: Ophthalmology: Photographic Examples -- Chapter 12: Associated Injuries -- Chapter 13: Associated Injuries: Case Studies -- Chapter 14: Medical Disorders That Mimic Abusive Head Trauama -- Chapter 15: Medical Disorders That Mimic Abusive Head Trauma: Case Studies -- Chapter 16: Nursing Care -- Chapter 17: Social Services -- Chapter 18: Collaborative Medical and Mental Health Risk Assessment -- Chapter 19: Autopsy Findings -- Chapter 20: Pathology: Case Studies -- Chapter 21: Forensic Investigations -- Chapter 22: Investigation: Case Study -- Chapter 23: Prosecuting a Case -- Chapter 24: Untrue Defenses -- Chapter 25: Use of Technology in Presenting Evidence -- Chapter 26: Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of Abusive Head Trauma -- Chapter 27: Outcomes: Case Studies -- Chapter 28: Prevention and Education -- Chapter 29: Putting it all Together: A Hypothetical Case -- Chapter 30: Illustrative Case Studies -- Index