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Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), sometimes known as cot death or crib death, is the sudden unexplained death of a child of less than one year of age. Diagnosis requires that the death remain unexplained even after a thorough autopsy and detailed death scene investigation. [ 2 ]
A plot of SIDS rate from 1988 to 2006. The Safe to Sleep campaign, formerly known as the Back to Sleep campaign, [1] is an initiative backed by the US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the US National Institutes of Health to encourage parents to have their infants sleep on their backs (supine position) to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS.
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Sudden infant death syndrome: Prevention: None: Prognosis: Bad, infants with the disorder usually die before the age of 1. Frequency: very rare, only 22 cases have been described in medical literature. Deaths: 22
SIDS most often refers to sudden infant death syndrome, the sudden unexplained death of a child of less than one year of age. SIDS may also refer to: Screening information dataset, a study of the hazards associated with a particular chemical substance; Small Island Developing States, a group of developing small-island countries
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Here are links to possibly useful sources of information about SIDS. PubMed provides review articles from the past five years (limit to free review articles) The TRIP database provides clinical publications about evidence-based medicine. Other potential sources include: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and CDC
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