Medical Child Abuse
Medical child abuse (MCA) occurs when a caregiver falsifies signs and symptoms resulting in a child receiving unnecessary and harmful or potentially harmful medical care. Like other conditions, MCA can…
PEDIATRICS
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
Youth who are at risk for or who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation (CSEC) have specialized health care needs. Their experiences are often unrecognized, even with regular contact with pediatric…
Pediatric Physical Abuse
This article will discuss an evidence-based approach when evaluating a young child presenting with concern for abusive visceral trauma. The types of pediatric visceral injuries along with salient features will…
Child Sexual Abuse
A comprehensive overview of child sexual abuse includes risk factors, presentation for medical evaluation, disclosure of sexual abuse, child sexual behaviors, medical evaluation, outcomes, and prevention. The authors give practical…
Ending the pregnancy
Eva Pajkrt and Liesbeth van Leeuwen Dilatation and evacuation Worldwide, together with aspiration, dilatation and evacuation (D&E) is still the most frequently used method of termination of pregnancy. There is…
The iterative process of decision-making
Karin E.M. Diderich Diagnosis, counseling, and decision-making This is the timeframe during which couples hear the (most likely) diagnosis and have to make the decision to terminate or continue the…
The discovery
Both Lara and Iris are Dutch. In the Netherlands, couples are legally allowed to terminate a pregnancy for fetal congenital abnormalities up to 24 weeks of pregnancy. Lara : Mae…
Addressing diversity in prenatal genetic counseling
Introduction Because of their welfare and relatively economic and political stability, the postindustrial countries in the world are preferred by immigrants, which results in the increasing diversity of the population…
Dealing with uncertainty in prenatal genomics
What is uncertain in prenatal genomics? Most prospective parents enter into the screening and diagnostic process with the assumption that the information they receive will be clear-cut and straightforward. In…
