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National Australian conference on shaken baby syndrome
Author(s) -
Moran Kieran T
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb04429.x
Subject(s) - shaken baby syndrome , medicine , occupational safety and health , poison control , injury prevention , medical emergency , child abuse , pathology
CONFERENCE REPORT IN 1974, CAFFEY SUGGESTED the label “whiplash shaken infant” to describe infants who had subdural haemorrhages without evidence of external injury. Much has been learned about inflicted head injury since that time. In September 2001 a conference was held in Sydney to share this knowledge among people from many disciplines who work with, or are affected by, children thought to have been injured in this manner. It was jointly organised by the US National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome, the Children’s Hospital, Westmead, and the Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick.