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[Shaken baby syndrome]
1Pediatrická klinika 1. LF a IPVZ FTN, Praha. ipeychl@yahoo.com
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Shaken baby syndrome, a severe form of child abuse, involves forceful shaking causing brain and head injuries in infants. This can lead to fatal outcomes or permanent disabilities, highlighting the critical need for awareness and prevention.
Area of Science:
- Pediatrics
- Neurology
- Forensic Medicine
Background:
- Shaken baby syndrome (SBS) is a form of Abused Child Syndrome.
- It involves forceful shaking of an infant, leading to head and brain injuries.
Observation:
- Injuries include cervical spinal cord contusion, bridging vein rupture, intracranial bleeding, and brain tissue damage.
- Damage results from direct axonal injury or hypoxic-ischemic insult.
- Fatal outcomes or permanent motor, mental, and sensory deficits can occur.
Findings:
- Foreign data indicate 25 cases per 100,000 children under one year.
- SBS accounts for over 1% of pediatric intensive care hospitalizations and over 10% of deaths in these units.
- Obtaining conclusive evidence for forensic purposes can be challenging.
Implications:
- Highlights the severity and impact of SBS on child health and mortality.
- Underscores the importance of recognizing SBS symptoms for timely intervention.
- Emphasizes the need for improved diagnostic methods and legal evidence gathering in suspected abuse cases.
Abstract:
Shaken baby syndrome represents a specific form of the Abused child syndrome. Injury usually concerns the baby's head and the brain and it is caused by thoughtless treatment accompanied by harsh shaking movements of the head and neck. It can cause a contusion of the cervical spinal hord, a rupture of the bridging veins, intracranial bleeding and a brain tissue impairment either due to the direct axonal damage, or namely by hypoxic-ischaemic insult. The development of the lesion can be fatal, or it can result in permanent impairment of the motor system, in mental or sensory deficits. Occurrence of the syndrome in the Czech Republic is not known, foreign data give 25 cases per 100000 children below one year of age. Injured babies represent over 1% of those hospitalised at paediatric units of intensive care and more than 10% of the death rate at those departments. Proved abuse has forensic consequences: however, convictive evidence can be difficult to obtain. Article gives a concrete case of a boy with the diagnose Shaken baby syndrome.
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