Child protection register--time for change.

Child protection register--time for change.

The authors reply The letter from Gupta and Moalypour further illustrates that carotid artery dissection is not as uncommon as had been thought. The range of symptoms recognised as being due to the condition and its diagnosis will no doubt increase as doctors become aware of it and imaging techniques and access to them improve. At present we are still learning the true incidence and the natural...

Accident and emergency department access to the child protection register: a questionnaire survey.

OBJECTIVES To ascertain how UK accident and emergency (A&E) departments access the child protection register, their levels of satisfaction with that access and their criteria for checking the register. METHODS A postal questionnaire was sent to 254 "major" A&E departments listed in the 1996 British Association for Accident and Emergency Medicine directory. RESULTS 190 questionnaires were re...

The Child Protection Register: a tool in the accident and emergency department?

AIMS To determine the number of children on the Child Protection Register (CPR) attending the accident and emergency (A&E) department and the referral source, diagnostic category, and frequency distribution for such attendances. To determine whether lack of knowledge that a child is on the CPR results in failure to suspect non-accidental injury (NAI) if the standard indicators of NAI have been ...

Child protection training for paediatricians.

Shield: Cost-Effective Soft-Error Protection for Register Files

Device scaling and large integration increase the vulnerability of microprocessors to transient errors. One of the structures where errors can be most harmful is the register file, because it is part of the architectural state. Moreover, because the register file is frequently read, an error can quickly propagate to other parts of the processor. This paper presents Shield, a novel, cost-effecti...