Child Fatality Review Quick Reference: For Healthcare, Social Service, and Law Enforcement Professionals

by Randell Alexander MD, PhD, FAAP, Mary Case MD

Overview

400 pages, 150 images, 77 contributors
Child Fatality Review Quick Reference features the best practices in the investigation of child death. It is a valuable resource both for active members of child fatality review teams (CFRTs) and for any professionals who collaborate with CFRTs in the process of child death review. This detailed reference is exhaustive in scope yet conveniently sized to suit the needs of frontline practitioners working in crime scenes, in the courtroom, or in the medical setting.
This reference describes in full the respective roles and responsibilities of CFRT members, from coroners and medical examiners, to law enforcement and district prosecutors, as well as a variety lay investigators, community representatives, and child welfare personnel. CFRT professionals across disciplines will all benefit from this in-depth guide to investigative protocols for all manner of abusive and negligent, accidental, and natural death in children.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936590070
Publisher:	STM Learning, Inc.
Publication date:	01/15/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	24 MB
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About the Author

Randell Alexander is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Florida and the Morehouse School of Medicine. He currently serves as chief of the Division of Child Protection and Forensic Pediatrics and interim chief of the Division of Developmental Pediatrics at the University of Florida-Jacksonville. He is the statewide medical director of child protections teams for the Department of Health's Children's Medical Services and is part of the International Advisory Board for the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome. He has also served as vice chair of the US Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect, on the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the boards of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and Prevent Child Abuse America. He is an active researcher, lectures widely, and testifies frequently in major child abuse cases throughout the country.
Mary Case is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia and the Saint Louis University School of Medicine. She completed her residency training in pathology at the Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center and is board certified in anatomical pathology, neuropathology, and forensic pathology. In addition to being a professor of pathology and codirector of the Division of Forensic Pathology at St. Louis University Health Sciences Center, Dr. Case serves as chief medical examiner for the cities of St. Louis and St. Charles, and Jefferson and Franklin Counties. Her primary practice is forensic pathology, and her areas of special interest are childrens' injuries and head trauma.

Table of Contents

1. Fatality Review Teams
2. Fatality Review Procedures
3. Epidemiology of Child Fatality
4. Pediatric Ophthalmology
5. Law Enforcement, Courts, and CPS
6. Social and Environmental Issues
7. Homicides
8. Perinatal Deaths
9. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
10. Physical Abuse
11. Neglect
12. Nonabusive Injuries
13. Suicides
14. Burns
15. Drownings
16. Medical Conditions

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Jennifer Forsyth, M.D.(City of St. Louis)
Description: The first half of this book is a good how-to guide to setting up an interdisciplinary child death review panel, outlining the responsibilities of each member with helpful suggestions regarding the administrative aspects of running a panel of this type. The second half outlines the most common types of child death and how the panel should document and respond to each.
Purpose: It is intended to assist in creating interdisciplinary child death review teams so that there is an improvement in child death investigation, with the ultimate goal of preventing such deaths. The book will be a great guide for those who need to set up this type of review team in their jurisdiction and it has good suggestions for improving the efficacy of teams already in existence.
Audience: The book has a large target audience, as the members of a child death review team come from many different disciplines. It would be appropriate for law enforcement officials, social service providers, and city/county administrators, as well as physicians who participate in child death reviews. The authors are leading experts in this field.
Features: This is an excellent manual for jurisdictions that need to create a review process or are new to the review process. The information in the book would make an excellent presentation to any city/county administration about the value of child death review panels. It is uniquely designed in a checklist format that is easy to use and it presents facts without unnecessary editorializing.
Assessment: This is a great primer for anyone involved in the process of creating or contributing to the child death review process. I don't believe any other book has covered the subject so thoroughly and succinctly.

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