They often times are small or large bruises on the brain that indicate trauma and because the outside of the head is not injured the assumption is that the baby was shook hard enough to bruise the brain. The problem in most cases is that the medical examiners find it hard to believe that a person can physically shake a baby hard enough to cause this kind of bruising. According to Tara Haelle in an article on devising a better way to determine shaken baby syndrome, experts and pediatricians are finding that many shaken baby cases diagnosis are wrong and that the symptoms are usually caused by other medical conditions, falls, or accidents. Haelle also writes about a group of researchers who developed a method for determining whether the baby's injury was shaken baby syndrome or something else. The researchers found that 82 percent of 198 cases that have already been tried, were not from abusive caregivers (2015). The methods used to determine are simple they just ask the medical examiner to make several observations and look for a list of 6 key symptoms. The more symptoms the child has the more likely they suffered abuse. I find that these methods plus the including new requirements in investigating children's deaths could be effective in improving the accuracy of
They often times are small or large bruises on the brain that indicate trauma and because the outside of the head is not injured the assumption is that the baby was shook hard enough to bruise the brain. The problem in most cases is that the medical examiners find it hard to believe that a person can physically shake a baby hard enough to cause this kind of bruising. According to Tara Haelle in an article on devising a better way to determine shaken baby syndrome, experts and pediatricians are finding that many shaken baby cases diagnosis are wrong and that the symptoms are usually caused by other medical conditions, falls, or accidents. Haelle also writes about a group of researchers who developed a method for determining whether the baby's injury was shaken baby syndrome or something else. The researchers found that 82 percent of 198 cases that have already been tried, were not from abusive caregivers (2015). The methods used to determine are simple they just ask the medical examiner to make several observations and look for a list of 6 key symptoms. The more symptoms the child has the more likely they suffered abuse. I find that these methods plus the including new requirements in investigating children's deaths could be effective in improving the accuracy of