ReviewInternational journal of legal medicine2018
The prone sleeping position and SIDS. Historical aspects and possible pathomechanisms.
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- A fatal case of accidental asphyxia following nitrous oxide inhalation and alcohol consumption.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2025Article
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS): State of the Art and Future Directions.International journal of medical sciences · 2024Review
- Infantile Hypoxic Encephalopathy Mimicking Acute Encephalopathy with Biphasic Seizures and Late Reduced Diffusion (AESD) Identified as an Episode of Brief Resolved Unexplained Event (BRUE).Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Sexually dimorphic effects of prenatal diazepam exposure on respiratory control and the monoaminergic system of neonate and young rats.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2022Article
- Survey of Korean daycare personnel on safe sleep practices related to sudden unexplained infant death: a cross-sectional exploratory study.Child health nursing research · 2022Article
- Home Cardiorespiratory Monitoring in Infants at Risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), Apparent Life-Threatening Event (ALTE) or Brief Resolved Unexplained Event (BRUE).Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
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- Trends in infant mortality: an evaluation of forensic autopsied infants in Eastern Denmark over 39 years.International journal of legal medicine · 2022Article
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- Impaired motor control in SIDS infants.International journal of legal medicine · 2018Article
- Why is a prone sleeping position dangerous for certain infants?Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2018Article
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Abstract
The incidence of SIDS decreased during the previous 25 years significantly. This is mainly due to epidemiological research identifying important risk factors such as prone sleeping position and subsequent campaigns to reduce this risk factor.Originally, the prone sleeping position for babies had been strongly recommended in the sixties and seventies despite previous publications pointed to the associated risk. Worldwide, many infants died of SIDS whose deaths could have been avoided. Today, the recommendation that infants should sleep in supine position has been scientifically verified. In supine sleeping position, pathophysiological mechanisms can be avoided which may lead to hypoxia and death in prone position. Such mechanisms could be occlusion of airways (in particularly associated with face-down position), elevated diaphragm, positional cerebral hypoxia caused by constriction of arteries, rebreathing CO2, and overheating.Irrespective of the specific pathomechanism leading to death in individual cases, it has been established that the prone position is the most important risk factor for SIDS and therefore should be incorporated in the definition of the term SIDS.
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