ABSTRACT
Each year in the United States, thousands of families experience the sudden and unexpected loss of an infant (aged <1 year)—a deeply traumatic event that often lacks clear cause or explanation. The risk of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) is reduced by placing infants alone on their backs to sleep.1 Although public health campaigns and clinical guidance about safe infant sleep have contributed to a decline in SUID rates, progress has stalled.1 Known risk factors, including sleep environment characteristics, maternal smoking, and preterm birth do not fully explain these deaths. Because the causes of many SUID instances are unknown, additional risk factors likely exist. Families, health care practitioners, and communities want to know the following: “Why and how did these deaths occur?” and “What can be done to prevent future deaths?”
To help answer those questions, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed the SUID Case…(see article link for full text)