Wagner: I've called this session Evaluation and Management of Nonaccidental Head Trauma, but I want to start with a question on terminology. What should we really be calling this condition when we identify a child with eye findings who fits into the category of what was formerly called Shaken Baby Syndrome?Levin: Several years ago the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended a change in terminology from Shaken Baby Syndrome to abusive head trauma. They clearly indicated that one form of abusive head trauma is Shaken Baby Syndrome, in which children are submitted to repeated acceleration and deceleration with or without blunt head trauma. So, whether you call it abusive head trauma or Shaken Baby Syndrome is a matter of choice, but according to the Academy you should be using the term abusive head trauma.
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