Children and inflicted brain injury - video available
Tuesday, 23 March 2010 13:55
During Brain Injury Awareness Week 2009 Brain Injury Australia held a forum at the Childrens Hospital, Westmead on "Children and Inflicted Traumatic Brain Injury". Video of some presentations from the forum are now available to download.
Dr. Susan Marks - Head, Child Protection Unit, The Children's Hospital at Westmead: " Head Trauma in Young Children - How it Can Present; Recent Case Examples [Windows Media - 18.6 MB]"
Dr. Marks is a specialist pediatrician,
forensic physician and medical Head of the Child Protection Unit at The
Children's Hospital at Westmead. She has worked in child protection since 1990
and has a Masters of Forensic Medicine. With colleagues she recently submitted
a proposal for the first national surveillance study to determine the incidence
of subdural haematoma (the collection of blood in the space between the outer
and middle layers of the covering of the brain caused by force applied to
the head sufficient to rupture veins) and effusion (the resulting leakage of
cerebrospinal fluid). Subdural haematoma/ effusion (SDH/E) is seen mainly in
infants less than 2 years of age. The most common cause of the estimated 65
Australian cases of SDH/E per year of is inflicted Traumatic Brain Injury.
Dr. Ray Chaseling, Senior Staff Neurosurgeon, The Children's Hospital at Westmead: "Non-Accidental Head Injuries - a Surgeon's Perspective [Windows Media - 13.02 MB]"
Dr. Chaseling graduated with an MBBS from
the University of Sydney in 1974 and completed neurosurgical training at
Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children
as well as overseas training at the Royal Infirmary and Western General
Hospitals in Edinburgh, Scotland before being awarded an Fellow of Royal
Australasian College of Surgeons in Neurosurgery in 1984. He has been a
consultant neurosurgeon at Westmead from 1984 until 2002 and Head of the
Department of Paediatric Neurosurgery at CHW since 2002. Dr. Chaseling will
talk to the findings of a 7-year survey of 65 cases of inflicted Traumatic
Brain Injury recorded at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead.
