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Preventing sudden unexpected death in infancy

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ResearchPod
Episode • May 31, 2023 • 9m

Sudden unexpected death in infancy, or SUDI, is the leading category of death after the first month of life, and it usually happens when babies are sleeping. Modification of unsafe sleep environments therefore provides a focus for possible intervention.

One such intervention in Australia and New Zealand, the Pēpi-Pod® Program, is literally saving lives. Professor Jeanine Young of the School at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Young is a registered nurse, midwife, and neonatal nurse who has provided nursing and midwifery care for parents who have lost their children.

Read more about their work in Research Features

Read the original research : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2019.06.022

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