Clearinghouse: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
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Title: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS): Home
URL (Internet "address"): http://www.cdc.gov/sids/
Sponsor: Department of Health and Human Services or Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. CDC does research to better improve American's daily lives and help with medical emergencies.
Author: Anonymous
Date Posted: 03/24/2006
Description of site: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are always
researching to make human beings health better. It was reviewed on 03/24/2006
meaning this website is updated with current facts. The National Institutes of
Health linked to this website. It provides helpful information on health. There
are also other links dealing with SIDS such as, if you are hunting for
information on infant deaths; you can find it right in this website. There is
also a link that provides the reader on how the investigation is done to
determine cause of death. There are links to show how CDC is working to prevent
SIDS and other SUID. This website provides beneficial information on Sudden
Infant Death Syndrome. It guides one into the understanding of SIDS. The
statistical information is very useful to one that does not know how often SIDS
occurs. It also shows how SIDS is declining in the United States and how SIDS
is even decreasing in minority groups such as, non-Hispanic Black and American.
The list of risk factors this website provides is very useful, because a parent
must know what will increase the likelihood of his or her infant at risk for
SIDS. This website provides information on Sudden Unexplained Infant Death
(SUID) and how investigators determine SIDS from other SUID. This provides
crucial information on how the authorities determine cause of death and the
research that is involved.
Reviewed by: Amber L. Lee from Dr. Dan Lago's Spring 2006 HDFS 129 class.
Title: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
URL: http://www.emedicinehealth.com/sudden_infant_death_syndrome_sids/page12_em.htm
Sponsor: eMedicine
Author/credentials: Patrick L. Carolan, MD. Patrick is a Medical Director of Minnesota Sudden Infant Death Center, Departments of Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine and Family Practice, Clinical Associate Professor, and Children's Hospital and Clinics of Minnesota
Date Posted: October 27, 2004
Description: Dr. Patrick L. Carolan is an intelligent man when it comes to
dealing with infants. Dr. Patrick L. Carolan is now works as a Pediatric
Emergency Medicince. This Doctor goes into detail about Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome. Emedicine not only provides information about SIDS, but other health
problems that occur in the world. Dr. Patrick L. Carolan provides many
different links dealing with SIDS. He gives information on the medical help
retrieved during SIDS. The information given to you about how the paramedics
will go about trying to save the infants life is very crucial, because you
would want to know what the doctor's will do when arriving at the emergency
room. The website provides a link in how to prevent SIDS, which is important
for a parent to know. Dr. Patrick L. Colan gives the details on how authorities
diagnose Sudden Infant Death Syndrome; how the procedure goes for an autopsy
and what exactly they do arriving at the death scene. This website provides
information on support groups for those parents whose infant died from SIDS.
This is crucial information because the parents tend to blame themselves, which
will lead to depression. Dr. Patrick L. Carolan provides you with statistics,
which show how much SIDS does occur; however, this website does not give graphs
to better understand the statistics. This website gives beneficial information
that will increase your knowledge of SIDS.
This whole website provides important information that is also accurate.
Reviewed by: Amber L. Lee from Dr. Dan Lago's Spring 2006 HDFS 129 class.
Title: Research on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
URL: http://www.nichd.nih.gov/womenshealth/sids_research.cfm
Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
Author: Anonymous, Corporate Author/The National Institute of Child Health &
Human Development is part of the United States Department of Health and Human
Services. NICHD strives to make sure children live a healthy life. NICHD was
established in 1974.
Date Posted: January 27, 2005
Description: National Institute of Child Health & Human Development provides
information on women's health. There is an honorable site that uses NICHD, it
is an organization called American Academy of Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation this provides information on rehabilitation and also has many
links for other associations. Most importantly because this website is provided
by government the information received is accurate and crucial. This website
provides a link for women health; this link provides research and recent
publications. It also provides crucial information on pregnancy and birth; it
provides links about problems that may occur during birth and problems that
could occur after birth such as, birth defect and SIDS. The important part of
this website is the research NICHD is doing on SIDS and the back to sleep
campaign. The Back to Sleep Campaign provides information on the National
Institute of Child Health & Human Development such as, when it was established
and when; it also works to decrease the statistic of SIDS in minority groups.
There is also a link for more information on The Back to Sleep Campaign and
numbers to learn more. The research goes in depth on what NICHD has founded on
what causes SIDS. There is also a link that provides new releases on SIDS.
Reviewed by: Amber L. Lee from Dr. Dan Lago's Spring 2006 HDFS 129 class.
