10/23/18 Public Health Grand Rounds
Location: Global Communications Center (Building 19, Roybal Campus), Alexander D. Langmuir Auditorium
“Safe Sleep for Infants"
Each year about 3,500 babies in the United States die suddenly and unexpectedly before they reach their first birthday due to sleep-related deaths. These tragedies, called sudden unexpected infant death (SUID), often occur during sleep or in the baby’s sleep area, and include sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed, and other deaths from unknown causes.
There have been dramatic declines in sleep-related infant deaths since the 1990s, when recommendations and campaigns such as Back to Sleep (now known as Safe to Sleep®) were introduced to place infants on their backs for sleep. However, rates of SUIDs have remained relatively flat since 2001 and racial and ethnic disparities persist. Differences in how the causes of these deaths are reported limit our understanding and prevention efforts.
This session of Public Health Grand Rounds will discuss infant safe sleep recommendations, the need for standardized SUID investigation and reporting practices, and promising interventions.
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