The severe injuries that result when a baby (or child) is shaken. Common are swelling of the brain, hemorrhaging, and neck injuries; in extreme cases, shaken baby syndrome is fatal.
Shaken baby syndrome is caused by vigorous shaking of an infant or young child by the arms, legs, chest or shoulders. Forceful shaking can result in brain damage leading to mental retardation, speech and learning disabilities, paralysis, seizures, hearing loss and even death. www.thearc.org/faqs/Shaken.html
Injuries, particularly to the head, caused by violently shaking a child. The syndrome is the most common cause of infant death from head injuries and is considered a serious form of child abuse. Shaken baby syndrome is encountered most often in 2-3 month-old infants. The syndrome has distinctive features including hemorrhage (bleeding) into the retina of the eye, hemorrhage and swelling of the brain, patterned bruising and fractures (breaks) of the child's ribs or bones. Deaths from the syndrome are high. Brain damage, visual problems, psychological consequences and learning difficulties are common in those that survive.
Developmental delay caused by brain damage that occurs when a young infant is forcefully shaken or tossed.
a term used to describe a collection of signs and symptoms —including brain damage, seizures, retinal hemorrhages, bruises or fractures, paralysis, coma, stupor, and death—that result when an infant is violently shaken. Children who survive being shaken experience lifelong handicaps ranging from behavioral challenges and learning disabilities to profound retardation, paralysis, blindness, inability to eat, or a permanent vegetative state.
a severe form of head injury that occurs when an infant or small child is shaken forcibly enough to cause the brain to bounce against the skull; the degree of brain damage depends on the extent and duration of the shaking. Minor symptoms include irritability, lethargy, tremors, or vomiting; major symptoms include seizures, coma, stupor, or death.
a form of child abuse caused by violent shaking of a baby or small child, usually by an adult frustrated by the babys crying, which can lead to brain damage, broken bones, blindness, paralysis, mental retardation, seizures or death.
Syndrome that results from shaking an infant.
Shaken baby syndrome (SBS) is a form of child abuse affecting between 1,200 and 1,600 children every year in the USA. SBS encompasses a variety of outcomes that are attributed to shaking an infant or small child. The concept of SBS was initially described in the early 1970's, based on a theory and a wide variety of circumstances by Dr.