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- Title
Abusive head trauma: Canadian and global perspectives.
- Authors
Biswas, Asthik; Shroff, Manohar M.
- Abstract
Canada has come a long way since Dr. C. Henry Kempe first described battered-child syndrome in 1962. The year 1999 was crucial in Canada's battle against shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma (SBS/AHT), when the first national conference on the topic was held in Saskatoon. This was followed by the issuance of a national statement and multidisciplinary guidelines, recently updated in 2020. Incidence of AHT in Canada is similar to that found in population-based studies from Switzerland and New Zealand. The mainstay of prevention of AHT in Canada is education of parents and caregivers with respect to their response to infant crying. Population-based data for global incidence of AHT are lacking, largely because of social and cultural differences contributing to poor understanding of AHT as a medico-legal entity. India faces a distinct challenge in the battle against female feticide and infanticide.
- Subjects
CANADA; SHAKEN baby syndrome; ABORTION; PARENTING education; INFANTS; CAREGIVERS
- Publication
Pediatric Radiology, 2021, Vol 51, Issue 6, p876
- ISSN
0301-0449
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s00247-020-04844-5