This session will cover the full gamut of skeletal fractures in child physical abuse as well as their simple causality and biomechanics. Also, the medical and genetic mimics of abusive fractures will be reviewed, as well as the types & causality of accidental fractures.
Learning Objectives:
identify the characteristics of accidental skull fractures in young infants...
Describe the simple biomechanics of spiral fractures.
Discuss the value of doll reenactments in fracture investigation.
