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Neonatal shaken baby syndrome

Neonatal shaken baby syndrome: an aetiological view from Down Under

A N Williams¹, R Sunderland²

¹ Orchard Centre for Community Health, Rugby, North Warwickshire NHS Trust, UK
² Birmingham Childrens' Hospital, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham B4 6NH, UK

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The potential dangers of vigorous chest physiotherapy in premature infants have not been widely communicated

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Keywords: shaken baby syndrome; brain injury; encephaloclastic porencephaly; lung disease; physiotherapy

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However hard we may strive to be up to date in our medical specialty, we are limited by the material we have to hand. There are the twin difficulties of ever increasing medical publication and disseminating crucial information to a wider critical readership. Sometimes though, in an unrelated area of medicine, new information occurs that illuminates other fields. This not only informs but may guide future practice. The controversy about vigorous chest physiotherapy for extreme preterm infants may have wider implications for professionals concerned with child protection.

In the 1990s there was a debate about strategies to prevent chronic lung disease in the extreme premature infant. The use of vigorous chest physiotherapy became the subject of an official enquiry by the New Zealand Ministry of Health,¹ which appears largely unknown to paediatricians and neonatologists in the Northern Hemisphere. The New Zealand Group report difficulty in publishing . . . [Full text of this article]

L Rosenbloom³, S Ryan³

³ Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust, Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool L12 2 AP, UK

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Correspondence to:
Dr Sunderland, Birmingham Childrens' Hospital, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham B4 6NH, UK;
r.sunderland@bham.ac.uk

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