1705 FINDING SPECIFIC ABNORMALITIES IN NEAR MISS CRIB DEATH

WHO maternal death and near-miss classifications.

a MRC Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategies Research Unit, University of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. b Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, 20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. c Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, England. d Office for National Statistics, London, England. Correspondence to João Paulo Souza (e-mail: souzaj@...

'Near miss' sudden infant death and obstructive apnoea.

A 4 month old girl presented with a 'near miss' sudden infant death episode for which no cause was found. Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome subsequently developed. All symptoms ceased after adenoidectomy at age 9 months.

Crib Death: A Biobehavioral Phenomenon?

In developed countries, more children under 1 year of age die of crib death (sudden infant death syndrome, SIDS) than of all other causes combined. Researchers and clinicians have proposed many possible causes of SIDS, but the abrupt, unexpected death of some babies remains mysterious and frightening. Although infant behavior may explain some of these deaths, scant attention has addressed behav...

Near miss audit in obstetrics.

In developed countries the Maternal Mortality Ratio’s (MMR) are low. To get a large enough sample to identify trends in the quality of maternal health care or of the diseases causing maternal deaths takes anything from 3 to 10 years. The information might be out of date due to new developments and discoveries by the time the information is published. Further, the circumstances related to a mate...

Some psychiatric sequelae to crib death.