Dr Hafeez is assistant professor of Pediatrics, McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Texas.
Infant’s seizures and skull fracture could point to child abuse
October 1st 2017A 5-month-old Hispanic male presented to the emergency department (ED) at a children’s hospital in the Northeast United States directly from his daycare after caretakers witnessed 2 shaking, seizure-like episodes. The episodes lasted 1 to 2 minutes in the setting of a fever as palpated by the parents.