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This 5 page paper discusses sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), which claims about 6,000 infants per year. While the incidence of SIDS has dropped dramtically since 1992 when pediatricians began recommending parents place their infants on their backs to sleep, this killer still claims too many babies each year. The writer provides data, including which groups have higher rates of SIDS and the factors believed to be associated with those higher rates. The writer also discusses theories as to the causes. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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sudden death of an infant under one year of age that remains unexplained after a thorough investigation, including performance of a complete autopsy, examination of the death scene; and review
of the clinical history" (Carroll and Siska, 1998, 1566). What makes SIDS so unique is the fact that the diagnosis occurs after death based on what is not found as
opposed to what is found. It is a diagnosis of exclusion; when all avenues have been investigated and no other reasons for the death appear, it is said to be
a SIDS case (Carroll and Siska, 1998; Barness and Barness, 1996). Since 1992, the incidence of SIDS deaths has dropped from the 2nd most frequent cause of infant death to
the 3rd most frequent cause of death for infants under the age of one year (MedLine, 2003). SIDS typically strikes infants between one and six months old; 85 percent of
infants who die of SIDS are 2 to 4 months old, and 95 percent are younger than six months old (Barness and Barness, 1996). According to the Merck Manual
of Diagnosis and Therapy, SIDS accounts for 30 percent of all deaths between the ages of 2 weeks and 1 year (2003). Worldwide, SIDS occurs in 1.5 infants out of
1,000 live births (Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 2003). The incidence of SIDS rises in cold months (Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 2003). The incidence is also higher
in premature babies, in infants who suffer from severe apnea, in lower socioeconomic groups, in siblings of SIDS babies and in babies whose mothers smoked during pregnancy (Merck Manual of
Diagnosis and Therapy, 2003). SIDS typically happens when the baby seems to be sleeping (Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 2003). The incidence of SIDS among the Native American population
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