Importance Bruising caused by physical abuse is the most common antecedent injury to be
overlooked or misdiagnosed as nonabusive before an abuse-related fatality or near-fatality …

Methods We conducted a comprehensive PubMed search using Medical Subject Heading
terms and phrases pertaining to social EM topic areas (eg,“homelessness,”“housing …

Infants are at greatest risk of severe and fatal physical abuse yet they sometimes present for
medical care multiple times with abusive injuries prior to being diagnosed with abuse and …

The reverse shock index (rSI) multiplied by Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score (rSIG),
calculated by multiplying the GCS score with systolic blood pressure (SBP)/hear rate (HR) …

Objectives: Many prehospital trauma triage scores have been proposed, but none has
emerged as a criterion standard. Therefore, a rapid and accurate tool is necessary for field …

Children can be subjected to the four types of child abuse (emotional abuse, physical abuse,
sexual abuse and neglect) in a myriad of ways. This Chapter discusses the features of each …

Objectives Early identification of traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients at a high risk of mortality
is very important. This study aimed to compare the predictive accuracy of four scoring …

Abusive head trauma (AHT) and its most common variant, the shaken baby syndrome (SBS),
are predominantly characterized by central nervous system-associated lesions. Relatively …

Objective This study had 2 objectives. First, to determine the behavior of physicians
evaluating premobile infants with bruises. Second, and most importantly, to learn whether …

Nelson G. Rosen, MD, Mauricio A. Escobar, Jr., MD, Carlos V. Brown, MD, Ernest E. Moore,
MD, Jack A. Sava, MD, Kimberly Peck, MD, David J. Ciesla, MD, Jason L. Sperry, MPH, MD …