Only Halfway There with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Richard D. Goldstein, Hannah C. Kinney, Alan E. Guttmacher
Abstract
Medicine promotes a logically inconsistent message regarding SIDS: authoritative statements imply that SIDS is a consequence of unsafe sleep in biologically normal children, but there is vague acknowledgment that important biologic factors are involved in these deaths.
Topics & Concepts
Sudden infant death syndromeMedicineDevelopmental psychologyPediatricsPsychologyNeuroscience of respiration and sleepNeonatal Respiratory Health ResearchRestraint-Related Deaths