child abuse

Here’s a case filed in 2013 against a hospital, its staff, and a contract NP and emergency physician in the ED, involved a seven-week-old child brought to the ED with a chief complaint of “blood in the mouth” and fussiness. The clinician’s note did not include this finding, but the nurse had documented blood in […]

Image Credit: Pixabay This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more.   Author: Michelle Mitchell, MD, PGY-1Duke University Medical Center Posterior rib fractures in infants. Burns on the buttocks and legs. Mechanism of injury that is not consistent with developmental age. Most physicians will recognize these potential red flags of child abuse. However, many emergency […]