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Monday, May 03, 2010
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM |
| Session Number: 3280 |
| Sudden Unexpected Death in Infants and the Infant Sleep Environment: Physiology, Epidemiology and Prevention |
| PAS Topic Symposium |
| Vancouver Convention Centre ~ 109 |
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| Target Audience: Clinicians, scientists, and public health officials involved with the care and well being of infants both in the hospital and the community setting will be interested in this topic. It will specifically target neonatologists, general pediatricians and those responsible for public health policy and safety programs within their communities. |
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| Objectives:
- Explain the anatomy and physiology of the newborn airway and respiratory system and recognize its[apos] vulnerability to environmental stresses[br]- Identify the relationship between infant deaths due to suffocation and asphyxia and the physical sleep environment[br]- Design and implement an infant safe sleep education program to promote awareness of the importance of safe sleep for infants among health care providers and parents in the NICU, well baby nursery, pre-natal OB, and pediatric clinic settings |
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| Chairs: Eileen Tyrala, St. Christopher[apos]s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, PA and Rachel Y. Moon, Goldberg Center for Community Pediatric Health, Children[apos]s National Medical Center, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC |
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| Since 1996, increasing use of protocols developed by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention for investigation of infant deaths, has resulted in the ability to collect standardized information about the circumstances of death of infants who die suddenly and unexpectedly. This has led to the recognition of factors in the infant sleep environment that were contributory to death. This symposium will explore what is known about the most common cause of preventable death in the first year of life, suffocation while in a sleeping environment. Anatomic and physiologic considerations of the newborn airway, respiratory system and developmental status which result in particular vulnerability of the newborn to asphyxia will be discussed. Epidemiologic evidence that has identified the hazards of the infant sleep environment as it relates to SUID deaths by asphyxia and suffocation will be presented. Examples of effective hospital and community based education programs that promote health care provider and parent infant safe sleep education and awareness will be highlighted. |
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| 10:20 AM - |
Solving the Puzzle of Sudden Unexpected Death in Infants: Putting the Pieces Together
Rachel Y. Moon
Goldberg Center for Community Pediatric Health, Children[apos]s National Medical Center, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC |
| 10:15 AM - |
Welcome and Brief Statement of Goals of Symposium
Eileen Elizabeth Tyrala
St. Christopher[apos]s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, PA |
| 10:40 AM - |
The Infant Airway and Respiratory System: Implications for Vulnerability to Environmental Stresses
Bradley Thach
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis MO |
| 11:00 AM - |
Child Death Review and the SUID Investigative Reporting Form: Explaining the Inexplicable, Case by Case
Teri Covington
National Center for Child Death Review, Washington, DC |
| 11:15 AM - |
The Epidemiology of Potentially Preventable Infant Deaths in the US
Carrie K. Shapiro-Mendoza
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA |
| 11:35 AM - |
Creating a Hospital and Community Based Infant Safe Sleep Education and Awareness Program: The York Hospital Experience
Michael H. Goodstein
Wellspan Health, York, PA |
| 11:45 AM - |
Creating a National Infant Safe Sleep Education and Awareness Program
Judith Bannon
Cribs for Kids, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 11:55 AM - |
Discussion
Discussion
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