Traumatic Brain Injury

Falls may cause more severe injuries in infants than previously thought

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 24th, 2003

Using a specially designed, highly lifelike doll, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have determined that rapid head rotations sustained when a baby's head contacts a hard surface during household falls may result in diffuse brain injuries.

The findings call into question earlier assessments of the seriousness of such falls by young infants, previously viewed by some as unlikely to cause widespread brain injury.

The results appear in the Journal of Neurosurgery.

"Previously falls were considered relatively benign, because the head was assumed to move in a linear path at the terminus of a fall," said Susan S....

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