Volume : VI, Issue : VII, July - 2016

Shaken Baby Syndrome “Review”

Nurul Afiqah Amani Binti Zaaba

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 To review the causes, symptoms, treatments, pre–valences, and diagnosis on the shaken baby syndrome. Objective: To review the causes, symptoms, treatments, pre–valences, and diagnosis on the shaken baby syndrome along with creating the awareness among the community. Background: Shaken baby syndrome is the most common cause of death of an infant due to the serious neurological injury. This may result from the child abuse, over shaking, natural or accidentally incidents that leads to this syndrome. This syndrome is related to traumatic ain injury as the infants have a very weak neck muscles and large head. Therefore, when they are shaken violently, the fragile ain of the baby tend to bounce back and fourth inside the skull and will result to swelling, bleeding and even lead to severe ain damage and finally lead to death. Thus, it is important to hold their head gently and properly by supporting their head and neck. Reasons: In India, the percentage of physical abuse is very high especially towards the children and shaken baby syndrome is also one of the form of physical abuse. Thus, this study was review to increase the awareness of shaken baby syndrome.

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Article: Download PDF   DOI : 10.36106/ijar  

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Nurul Afiqah Amani Binti Zaaba Shaken Baby Syndrome ReviewIndian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.6, Issue : 7 JULY 2016


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