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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome |
SIDS; Sudden Infant Death Syndrome/sids |
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is any sudden and unexplained death of an apparently healthy infant aged one month to one year. The term cot death is sometimes used in the United Kingdom, and crib death in North America. Diagnosis SIDS is a definition of exclusion and should only apply to an infant whose death is sudden and unexpected, and remains unexplained after the performance of an adequate postmortem investigation including (1) an autopsy, (2) investigation of the scene and ci ...
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Organizations
- National Women's Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov/
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/
- Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- Nemours Foundation http://www.Nemours.org
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development http://www.nichd.nih.gov/
- National Center for Health Statistics
- American Heart Association http://www.americanheart.org/
- American Medical Association http://www.ama-assn.org/
- National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Resource Center
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Indian Health Service, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- National Immunization Program
- Dept. of Health and Human Services, Maternal and Child Health Bureau
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Clearinghouse, NICHD, NIH, HHS http://www.nichd.nih.gov/
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Clearinghouse, AHRQ, OPHS, HHS http://www.ahcpr.gov/news/pubsix.htm
- Indian Health Services http://www.ihs.gov/
- National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Resource Center, MCHB, HRSA, HHS http://www.sidscenter.org/
- Back to Sleep Campaign, NICHD, NIH, HHS http://www.nichd.nih.gov/sids/sids.htm
- Office of Medical Applications of Research http://odp.od.nih.gov/omar/
- Office of the Director http://www.nih.gov/icd/od/
- MayoClinic http://www.mayoclinic.com/
- Cleveland Clinic http://www.clevelandclinic.org
- Google Health https://www.google.com/health
Resources
- After Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Facing Anniversaries, Holidays, and Special Events (National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Resource Center, MCHB, HRSA, HHS)
- American Academy of Pediatrics
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