Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 15 Issue 26 – Back To Sleep –

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Again to Sleep and Sudden Toddler Dying Syndrome (SIDS)

Sudden Toddler Dying Syndrome (SIDS) is outlined as “the sudden demise of an toddler beneath one yr of age which stays unexplained after a radical case investigation, together with an entire post-mortem, examination of the demise scene, and evaluate of the scientific historical past.”

Throughout my time on the College of Virginia, I skilled beneath neonatologist Dr. John Kattwinkel, a champion for new child well being and one of many main figures in shaping nationwide secure sleep insurance policies. Within the early Nineties, he chaired the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Activity Pressure on Toddler Sleep Place and SIDS, which laid the muse for the landmark Again to Sleep marketing campaign.

At the moment, SIDS claimed roughly 14 infants per 10,000 reside births in 1988. Following the marketing campaign’s launch in 1994, the speed plummeted by over 60%, reaching about 5 deaths per 10,000 reside births by 2006. Regardless of this dramatic enchancment, current knowledge recommend that the decline has plateaued…..

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