Sentences with phrase «includes accidental suffocation»

Firstly, why in the world are we including accidental suffocation deaths in the SIDS rate?!

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By assuming before any facts are known from the pathologist's death scene and toxicological report that any bedsharing baby was a victim of an accidental suffocation rather than from some congenital or natural cause, including SIDS unrelated to bedsharing, medical authorities not only commit a form of scientific fraud but they victimize the doomed infant's parents for a third time.

While there is evidence that accidental suffocation can and does occur in bed - sharing situations, in the overwhelming number of cases (sometimes in 100 % of them) in which a real overlay by an adult occurs, extremely unsafe sleeping condition or conditions can be identified including situations where adults are not aware that the infant was in the bed, or an adult sleeping partners who are drunk or desensitized by drugs, or indifferent to the presence of the baby.

This hazard, which includes choking, suffocation, and strangulation, is the number one cause of accidental death among babies under age 1.

Such causes included accidental smothering by an adult, getting trapped between the mattress and headboard or other furniture, and suffocation on a soft waterbed mattress.

The latter includes homicides, as well as intentional suffocation, estimated at about 5 % of SUID deaths, but also suspected or definite accidental suffocations, because of an overlay by another person, or an asphyxial wedging or strangulation, especially where the infant is not found dead in a crib but having been on a structure not specifically designed with infant sleep safety in mind (recliners, waterbeds, couches, sofas and / or adult beds).9

However, such soft bedding can increase the potential of suffocation and rebreathing.54, 56,57,179, — , 181 Pillows, quilts, comforters, sheepskins, and other soft surfaces are hazardous when placed under the infant62, 147,182, — , 187 or left loose in the infant's sleep area62, 65,184,185,188, — , 191 and can increase SIDS risk up to fivefold independent of sleep position.62, 147 Several reports have also described that in many SIDS cases, the heads of the infants, including some infants who slept supine, were covered by loose bedding.65, 186,187,191 It should be noted that the risk of SIDS increases 21-fold when the infant is placed prone with soft bedding.62 In addition, soft and loose bedding have both been associated with accidental suffocation deaths.149 The CPSC has reported that the majority of sleep - related infant deaths in its database are attributable to suffocation involving pillows, quilts, and extra bedding.192, 193 The AAP recommends that infants sleep on a firm surface without any soft or loose bedding.

Bed - sharing, the unsafe practice in which parents sleep in the same bed as their babies, is associated with sleep - related deaths in infants, including sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed.

Less infants die from all other top ten causes of accidental injury death combined than from sleep - related accidental suffocation, sleep - deprived mothers driving with their babies in the car off the cliff included.

It encompasses a range of situations, including sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), which refers to deaths that remain unexplained after a thorough investigation, and deaths found to result from accidental strangulation or suffocation caused by factors such as unsafe bedding, becoming trapped between a mattress and a wall, or sleeping with a parent or another adult who inadvertently blocks the infant's airway.

Bed - sharing, the unsafe practice in which parents sleep in the same bed as their babies, is associated with sleep - related deaths in infants, including sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed.