Cot deaths: the aftermath.
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The value of a thorough protocol in the investigation of sudden infant deaths.
AIMS To review the diagnostic value of using a thorough necropsy protocol for the investigation of sudden infant deaths, with particular emphasis on the value of routine ancillary laboratory investigations. METHODS The necropsy and related records of all neonatal, infant, and young childhood deaths (under three years) referred for medicolegal investigation at Dundee from 1990 to early 1998 we...
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"'Cot deaths" are estimated to account for over 20% of the mortality in the age group concerned, more than 1,400 such fatalities having occurred in England and Wales in 1955 (Banks, 1958). The infants are found unexpectedly dead in the cot, having been placed there, generally the previous night, either well or suffering from an apparently trivial upset that usually had given no cause for alarm ...
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McWeeny, P. M., and Emery, J. L. (1975). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 50, 191. Unexpected postneonatal deaths (cot deaths) due to recognizable disease. At least a quarter of the babies dying as unexpected home 'cot deaths' do so from recognizable diseases. A study of the background of such children, compared with age and admission controls, suggests that the disease symptomatology in this ...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
دوره 35 273 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1985