Question 25225 — children

Summary

Ms. Fadila Khattabi alerts the Minister of Solidarity and Health to the recommendation of the High Authority for Health (HAS) relating to shaken baby syndrome (SBS). This official text should allow health professionals to diagnose this form of head trauma which affects several hundred babies each year. Brain, eye and spinal cord lesions constitute the after-effects which occur when an adult, most of the time exasperated by the infant's cries, shakes him too violently, a scourge against which the public authorities try to fight through the implementation of good practice recommendations by the HAS as well as legal proceedings. However, these recommendations have recently been called into question by several parent associations, claiming their innocence and pointing out certain flaws in the level of diagnosis, a diagnosis that is indeed complex, based essentially on medical expertise and on the recommendations of good practice developed by the HAS, recommendations which oblige health professionals to automatically make a report to the public prosecutor. This process would in certain cases be the cause of medical and judicial errors, several parents having been acquitted following a charge of shaken baby syndrome. Also, given the difficulties observed in the evaluation of this diagnosis, and the tragedies that such a diagnosis can cause for families, she questions him about the possibility of contacting the HAS with the aim of revising and updating the recommendation in question in the light of these latest controversies.

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