SIDS

researchers stated that SIDS babies probably have a defect in the brain neurochemicals that usually operate the protective responses to changes in oxygen and carbon dioxide levels.(IntelliHealth 3)

This situation has made me grateful to be alive since I was able to be brought back to health due to these wonderful neonatal nurses who helped me recover, but not many newborn babies are fortunate enough to survive just like me as newborn babies have died and suffered due to the lack of supervision that neonatal nurses are incapable of providing.

However, the global advance in child survival continues to elude many of the world’s youngest and most vulnerable children. Of the 6.3 million children who died before age 5 in 2013, 16 per cent took their first and final breaths on the day they were born. Altogether, 44 per cent died during the first 28 days of life. In 2013 the world suffered the loss of 2.8 million newborn babies. These staggering statistics are all the more tragic given that low-cost, evidence-based solutions are increasingly available, even in some of the most remote places.In 2013, almost 1 million newborns died on the day they were born, accounting for 16 per cent of all under-five deaths and more than a third of all neonatal deaths.4 A total of 2 million newborns died within the first seven days after birth, representing 73 per cent of all neonatal deaths (figure 16). Between 1990 and 2013, 86 million newborn babies born worldwide died within their first 28 days of life.

It is every parents’ worst fear to wake up one morning to find that their child has passed away without warning. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the common name used today is also referred to as Crib Death, which is an unexplained death occurring during sleep of a seemingly healthy baby less than a year old (mayo clinic). Even though there are some ways to prevent SIDS, there is no guarantee that a child is a hundred percent safe. Some ways to prevent SIDS can be done with parental knowledge of how SIDS occurs. Even though the baby has nothing medically wrong, it could be that the parents did something unintentionally by accident or are simply uniformed.

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is a condition that many people still are trying to figure out why it happens to these babies. This syndrome is described as an unexplained death of an infant younger than one year of age. SIDS is frightening because it can strike without warning and affect a good, healthy infant. Most SIDS deaths occur at night and without warning. SIDS victims may have been down for sleep for as little as ten minutes, they show signs of struggle or suffering. Although SIDS is commonly associated with an infants sleep time, and often occurs in the crib. This event is not limited to the crib and may occur anywhere the infant is sleeping, deaths have occurred in

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome remains the leading cause of post-neonatal mortality (under the age of one) in developed countries. The causes of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome have been puzzling and research is being conducted to solve this catastrophic problem. Having a child under the age of one makes me very concerned, along with any other parent(s), that the possibility of SIDS could affect any infant at anytime, SIDS does not discriminate. I am seeking to find the possible causes to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome so in the future deaths could be avoided.

Knowledge is power. For more information about SIDS and how parents and caregivers can reduce the risk, visit the following online resources: The National SIUD/SID Center (www.sidscenter.org) The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (www.nichd.nich.gov) The American Academy of Pediatrics (www.aap.org) The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (www.cpsc.gov) First Candle/SIDS Alliance (www.firstcandle.org) Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood Program (www.sudc.org) Your local state and county Child Health and Welfare office. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Learn More: What You Should Know About SIDS... Infant Health and Wellness The Safe to Sleep campaign formerly the Back to

          First of all, cigarettes are bad for a regular person. Cigarette smoking by the mother during pregnancy has been consistently shown in studies as a risk factor for SIDS. A study measuring the level of tobacco smoke exposure in SIDS victims to a control group of infants that had died of other causes. Relying on the continue concentration taken from the pericardial fluid, researchers found that the SIDS victims were more likely to have high the concentrations of cotinine in the fluid than the control infants. Cotinine is produced as the liver cleanses the nicotine from the blood and metabolizes it. Steps are being took to inform people about the

According to the article “Death and Dying”, neonatology is a specialty with pediatric medicine to provide care for sick or premature babies.

states SIDS as being "the sudden death of any infant or young child which is

of anesthetics by 50%, provides neuroprotection against focal cerebral ischemia. Perinatal asphyxia can lead to death and severe disability. Brain hypoxia-ischemia (HI) injury is the major pathophysiology contributing to death and severe disability after perinatal asphyxia. Ren et al. studied the effects of dexmedetomidine on seven-day old Sprague Dawley rats with

Perinatal asphyxia is one of the most serious birth complications and a leading cause of permanent disability and death in full term neonates.

Patient’s in the NICU are considered to be very tiny and fragile and immunocompromised due to their immature organ systems which can lead to many dangerous medical problems. Patricia W. Stone states “maintaining a safe environment reflects a level of compassion and vigilance for patient welfare that is as important as any other aspect of competent health care” (Stone, 2008). The patient’s safety should always be a top concerned for a nurse because in a health care facility the purpose is to heal the patient and get them on the road to recovery. Nurses must learn from the errors of the past and use their knowledge to improve the quality of nursing to the patients to ensure if errors do happen again that the use of evidence-based practices are put into place to improve their outcomes. According to Higher Quality of Care and Patient Safety, “Registered Nurses (RNs) are instrumental in achieving multiple care goals, including promoting infant health and clinical stability, maintaining the integrity and cleanliness of central catheters, and preparing families for their role in infant care and successful transition it home” (Lake, 2016). Nurses are reasonable for the education of the families of the patients to ensure that the best quality of care for the patient is maintained outside the hospital to ensure the best medical outcome for the infants.

Each year approximately 10 million babies do not breathe immediately at birth, of which about 6 million require basic neonatal resuscitation. The major burden is in low-income settings, where health system capacity to provide neonatal resuscitation is inadequate. Many of these babies die because their birth attendant or caregiver did not know a simple technique called neonatal resuscitation. Neonatal resuscitation is important because it is a technique that can and will save a baby’s life. Birth asphyxia is one of the leading causes of infant mortality, cerebral palsy and mental disabilities worldwide. In this case, we were asked to look at the China Neonatal

In 1976 Sarnat and Sarnat carried out a score, the Sarnat score, which was a combination of neurological symptoms as described above and the accompanying electro-encephalographic (EEG) features. This score was, in fact, a grading of the severity of the encephalopathy. It contains three stages, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) stage 1, HIE stage 2 and HIE stage 3, the latest the most severe stage of encephalopathy. The most severely affected infants typically progress from stage 1 to 3 [7,8]. The S100B protein is produced and released primarily by astrocytes in the CNS where it has trophic functions on neurons and the glia. Many molecules are asigned a role as markers of neurological injury in cases of HIE. Glutamate, aspartate, lactate, ammonia, creatinine, specific kinase, NSE (neuron specific enolase) and other substances have been studied in serum, umbilical cord blood, amniotic fluid and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) [9]. Previous studies that measured the concentration of S100B in the CSF and blood have shown a direct relationship with brain injury [10]. The aim of this study was to highlight the importance of cord blood S100B protein in the diagnosis of neonatal HIE and determination of its severity.