Radiology plays an important role in the detection and evaluation of physical child abuse. The Child Abuse Taskforce is an international collaborative effort to increase awareness and improve the quality of radiological imaging throughout Europe.
The Child Abuse Taskforce aims:
- to build up a network of paediatric radiologists within the ESPR who are involved in child abuse imaging and share experiences and knowledge
- to explore the possibilities of cross-border research in the field of child abuse imaging.
- to generate an ESPR guideline on child abuse imaging, which could serve as a standard for national and international guidelines.
- to translate into European languages the Royal College of Radiology/Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Guidelines for Imaging in Suspected Non-Accidental Injury (endorsed by the ESPR Committee as the guidelines throughout Europe)
Chairperson
Amaka Offiah, Sheffield/UK
Co-chairperson
Maria Raissaki, Heraklion/GR
Members
Annmarie Jeanes, Leeds/UK
Catherine Adamsbaum, Paris/FR
Felice D’Arco, London/UK
Gabrielle Colleran, Dublin/IE
Greg Chambers, Leeds/UK
Herwig Brandtner, Salzburg/AT
Ignasi Barber, Barcelona/ES
Karen Rosendahl, Bergen/NO
Kshitij Mankad, London/UK
Maria I Argyropoulou, Ioannina/GR
Maria Olsen Fossmark, Tromso/NO
Rick van Rijn, Amsterdam/NL
Ruth Cytter-Kuint, Jerusalem/IL
Sniya Sudhakar, London/UK
If you would like to become a member of the Child Abuse Taskforce, please send your CV to office@espr.org.
- Audit of skeletal survey guidelines in use for suspected abuse across Europe and adoption of European-wide guidelines
- Audit of neuroradiological guidelines in use for suspected abuse across Europe and adoption of European-wide guidelines
- Review of radiologists’ agreement in diagnosing rickets
- Review of correlation of radiological features of rickets and vitamin D levels
Pediatric Radiology Articles
- “European Society of Paediatric Radiology (ESPR) Child Abuse Taskforce Committee: a response to Miller et al” Paddock M, Adamsbaum C, Barber I, Raissaki M, van Rijn R, Offiah AC. European Society of Paediatric Radiology (ESPR) Child Abuse Taskforce Committee: a response to Miller et al. J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab. 2020 Jul 28;33(7):941-944. doi: 10.1515/jpem-2020-0184. PMID: 32598317.
- “Consensus statement on abusive head trauma in infants and young children” Choudhary, A.K., Servaes, S., Slovis, T.L. et al. Consensus statement on abusive head trauma in infants and young children. Pediatr Radiol 48, 1048–1065 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-018-4149-1
- “Throwing the baby out with the bath water — response to the Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services (SBU) report on traumatic shaking” Saunders, D., Raissaki, M., Servaes, S. et al. Throwing the baby out with the bath water — response to the Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services (SBU) report on traumatic shaking. Pediatr Radiol 47, 1386–1389 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-017-3932-8
- “European survey of imaging in non-accidental injury demonstrates a need for a consensus protocol” Hulson, O.S., van Rijn, R.R. & Offiah, A.C. European survey of imaging in non-accidental injury demonstrates a need for a consensus protocol. Pediatr Radiol 44, 1557–1563 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-014-3063-4
- “ESPR adopts British guidelines for imaging in suspected non-accidental injury as the European standard” Offiah, A.C., Adamsbaum, C. & van Rijn, R.R. ESPR adopts British guidelines for imaging in suspected non-accidental injury as the European standard. Pediatr Radiol 44, 1338 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-014-3153-3
- Offiah AC, Servaes S, Adamsbaum CS, Argyropoulou MI, Halliday KE, Jaspan T, Owens CM, Raissaki M, Rosendahl K, Stoodley N, Van Rijn RR, Callahan MJ, Chung T, Donaldson JS, Jaramillo D, Slovis TL, Strouse PJ. Initial response of the European Society of Paediatric Radiology and Society for Pediatric Radiology to the Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services’ document on the triad of shaken baby syndrome. Pediatr Radiol. 2017 Apr;47(4):369-371. doi: 10.1007/s00247-017-3808-y. Epub 2017 Feb 23. PMID: 28233046.
