Child Fatality Review: An Interdisciplinary Guide and Photographic Reference

by Randell Alexander MD, PhD, FAAP, Mary Case MD, Sharon W. Cooper (Foreword by), Michael Durfee (Introduction)

Overview

832 pages, 643 images, 73 contributors
Child Fatality Review is designed to serve CFR team members, potential team members, and interested nonmembers as the only text they will need on child death review. It is the first and only text available that is devoted to the child fatality review (CFR) process. The title details common types of child fatalities for professionals to use as a reference, including sections devoted to review procedures, the roles of each team member, and full-color photographs of various causes of child death and manners of death.
While this illustrated text is an ideal tool for anyone who works on or with a child fatality review team, it is also a reference asset to any medical library. In the arena of education, Child Fatality Review is a valuable teaching tool in university social-work classes or law enforcement teaching facilities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781878060426
Publisher:	STM Learning, Inc.
Publication date:	02/15/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	832
File size:	106 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. Overview
2. Epidemiology of Child Death
3. The Homicides of Children and Youth
4. Homicides: Case Studies
5. Perinatal Mortality Review: The Iowa Model
6. Perinatal Deaths: Case Studies
7. SIDS: A Pathologist’s Perspective
8. Sudden Unexplained Infant Death: Case Studies
9. Physical Abuse
10. Physical Abuse: Case Studies
11. Fatal Child Neglect
12. Neglect: Case Studies
13. Nonabusive Injuries
14. Nonabusive Injuries: Case Studies
15. Lightning and Lightning Injuries
16. Examining Youth Suicides: The Suicide Review Team
17. Suicides: Case Studies
18. Burn Injuries in Child Fatality Review
19. Burn Injuries: Case Studies
20. Drowning in Child Fatality Review
21. Drowning: Case Studies
22. Childhood Cancers and Blood Disorders
23. Congenital Defects and Genetic Disorders
24. Child Fatality Due to Infectious Diseases
25. International Child Fatality Review Teams
26. Effective Models of Review
27. Criminal and Civil Jurisdiction in Indian Country
28. Military Approaches to Child Fatality Review
29. Military Approaches: Case Studies
30. Coming of Age: Child Death Review in America
31. Child Death Review Teams: Examples and Overview
32. Issues, Problems, and Considerations
33. The Role of Child Abuse Pediatricians
34. The Medicolegal Death Investigator
35. The Role of Coroners
36. Forensic Pathology in the US and UK
37. Forensic Autopsy Procedure
38. Imaging of Childhood Fatality Caused by Child Abuse
39. Pediatric Ophthalmology
40. Law Enforcement Investigation of Child Fatalities
41. Child Death Specialist: Case Studies
42. The Role of Law Enforcement
43. The Role of the Prosecutors
44. The Role of Child Protection
45. The Role of Mental Health Professionals
46. Intimate Partner Violence
47. The Grieving Process and Family Support
48. Preventing Future Deaths
49. Protection of Children by Licensed Childcare Centers
50. Child Death Review Team Recommendations
51. Vision for the Future