Arjo Loeve and Kim Hutchinson at RTL Nieuws about shaken baby experiment

Shaking a baby violently can cause head and neck injuries, blindness and in some cases even death. Researchers at TU Delft, faculty of Mechanical Engineering, are using a dummy baby and computer models to map the accelerations that act on the head during shaking. They want to be able to assess the risk of injury more accurately. This could eventually lead to more clarity in legal cases on the subject.

Shaking a one-year-old child as hard as you can. That is what the new series of experiments by researchers Arjo Loeve and Kim Hutchinson comes down to. Of course, they did not use a real child for these experiments but a dummy that is similar in size and weight to an average one-year-old child. In recent weeks, the researchers asked 40 volunteers to shake the doll, both standing and sitting, as hard as they possibly could.

In the episode from RTL Nieuws they tell more about the research (Dutch): https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/video/uitzendingen/video/35468058-cb7b-455b-8811-1447af323655/aflevering-62