Sentences with phrase «sids as a diagnosis»
«It seems that medical examiners or coroners seem to be moving away from SIDS as a diagnosis and more likely to report suffocation as the cause of death,» said Shapiro - Mendoza.
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17 (p681) Only mothers of infants with a final diagnosis of SIDS who lived in one of the participating counties and spoke English or Spanish were eligible to participate as cases in the study.
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is a medical syndrome first defined in 1963 and generally described as a «diagnosis by exclusion.»
Indeed, if a baby dies in what is defined as an «unsafe sleep environment,» such as all non-crib sleeping deaths, those babies are no longer regarded as SIDS deaths, when in fact, they could be.9 More problematic is the fact that the SUID diagnosis is being applied abundantly in cases where an infant is found dead sleeping next to a parent on the same surface, no matter what the social or physical circumstances.26