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Now, back to our episode.

Today, we are going to be covering non-accidental trauma or NAT for short.

We'll start off by discussing some population health and statistics regarding NAT,

and then we'll move on to discuss certain red flags or injury patterns that are highly concerning for non-accidental trauma.

Finally, we'll end the episode by discussing workup and management.

In the United States, looking at children of any age, about six per 100,000 will suffer from non-accidental trauma,

and one of those six children will die from non-accidental trauma. The incidence is much higher

amongst children under one year old. This rate climbs tenfold to about 60 per 100,000. Non-accidental trauma spans all races and all

socioeconomic classes. But who is at highest risk? In general, out of all children in the United

States, black children have the highest rate of being affected by non-accidental trauma,

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