Erschienen in:
01.06.2015 | Commentary
Co-sleeping and suffocation
verfasst von:
Peter S. Blair
Erschienen in:
Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology
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Ausgabe 2/2015
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Excerpt
The diagnosis of SIDS is unique in that it is essentially saying “we don’t know why the baby died.” Unexpected by clinical history and after a thorough post mortem examination we have failed to demonstrate an adequate cause of death and it is on the basis of this Beckwith definition [
1] that SIDS was first included as a separate category in the International Classification of Diseases in 1968. The only controversy stirred up by John Emery’s perceptive question following the 1989 meeting in Paris [
2] is that it took 2 decades to realize we are dealing with such a conundrum. SIDS by definition has always been a diagnostic dustbin [
1]. Perhaps at the outset there was hope that we may find a single definitive cause but after 50 years of research and more than 100 observational studies the one thing we can say with any certainty is that SIDS has multiple causal mechanisms. …
