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The syndrome applies only to infants under one year of age. [16] SIDS is a diagnosis of exclusion and should be applied to only those cases in which an infant's death is sudden and unexpected, and remains unexplained after the performance of an adequate postmortem investigation, including:
Sudden infant death syndrome, the unforeseen and unexplained death of a baby younger than one year old, is by definition a mystery. But researchers are getting closer to understanding some of the ...
A self-willed death (due to voodoo hex, evil eye, pointing the bone procedure, [33] [34] etc.) is an extreme form of a culture-specific syndrome or mass psychogenic illness that produces a particular form of psychosomatic or psychophysiological disorder resulting in psychogenic death. Rubel in 1964 spoke of "culture-bound" syndromes, those ...
The classic economic model describing Dutch disease was developed by the economists W. Max Corden and J. Peter Neary in 1982. In the model, there is a non-tradable sector (which includes services ) and two tradable sectors : the booming sector, and the lagging (or non-booming) tradable sector.
Determining if death is imminent ultimately comes down to a medical practitioner's judgment, Dr. Emily Barker, an ob-gyn in Missouri and a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health, tells ...
Sudden unexplained nocturnal death syndrome may refer to: Brugada syndrome , a genetic disorder in which the electrical activity within the heart is abnormal Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS), a sudden unexpected death of adolescents and adults, mainly during sleep
Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS) is a sudden unexpected death of adolescents and adults caused by a cardiac arrest. However, the exact cause of the cardiac ...
A death rattle is noisy breathing that often occurs in someone near death. [1] Accumulation of fluids such as saliva and bronchial secretions in the throat and upper airways is the cause. [ 2 ] Those who are dying may lose their ability to swallow and may have increased production of bronchial secretions, resulting in such an accumulation. [ 3 ]