Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma, Volume 1

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.

228 pages, 164 images, 28 contributorsThis complete overview of abusive head trauma includes 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.

IntroductionBiomechanics of AHTOutcomes of AHTSection I. Extracranial InjuriesChapter 1. LacerationChapter 2. Subgaleal HemorrhagesSection II. Intracranial Injuries With Associated BleedingChapter 3. Epidural HematomaChapter 4. Subarachnoid HemorrhageChapter 5. Acute Subdural HemorrhageChapter 6. Chronic Subdural HematomaChapter 7. Subdural HygromaSection III. Intracranial Injuries Without BleedingChapter 8. Cerebral EdemaChapter 9. Hypoxic-Ischemic InjuriesChapter 10. Diffuse Axonal InjuryChapter 11. Brain ContusionChapter 12. Leptomeningeal Cyst, Growing SkullFracture, Posttraumatic CephaloceleChapter 13. Posttraumatic HydrocephalusChapter 14. Neck and Spinal InjuriesSection IV. FracturesChapter 15. Fractures of the Cranial Vault:General PrinciplesChapter 16. Depressed Skull FracturesChapter 17. Basilar Skull FracturesChapter 18. Ping-pong Skull FracturesChapter 19. Rib FracturesChapter 20. Long Bone Fractures