Just last week, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released new “safe sleep” recommendations to protect against SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome). These are the first updates to the recommendations since 2011. SIDS is an otherwise unexplained death of a child. The risk and incidence ...
The majority of these images (26/39; 67%) contained at least one violation of the safe sleep recommendations with most of the violations (21/26; 81%) depicting an unsafe sleep environment (eg. bumpers, bedsharing) and 5 of the 22 (23%) pictures of sleeping infants showed the infant ...
AAP Task Force on sudden infant death syndrome: SIDS and other sleep-related infant deaths: updated 2016 recommendations for a safe infant sleeping environment. Pediatrics 2016; 138: e20162938.Moon RY, Darnall RA, Feldman-Winter L et al. SIDS and other sleep-related in...