Distinguishing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Review

Title: Distinguishing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Review
Category: Literature / English
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Distinguishing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Review

Advances in technology have provided a better understanding of certain risk factors involved in sudden, unexplained infant deaths (SUIDs). This understanding has allowed authorities to educate parents and caregivers, resulting in a dramatic decrease of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). An unfortunate side effect of this decrease however, has been an increase in the discovery of fatal child abuse masked as SIDS. “Distinguishing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome From Child Abuse Fatalities,” found in the February 2001 …showed first 75 words of 726 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 726 total…must be eliminated before a diagnosis of SIDS can be made. A thorough investigation must be made to accomplish this. A thorough investigation of the death scene, medical history, and a case review are imperative to determine an accurate cause of death. The differences between SIDS and suffocation are very difficult to discern through an autopsy alone. A thorough investigation of the death scene will help to expose cases of infanticide. The committee estimates that “

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