SIDS
Leading cause of death among babies from 1 month -12 months of age
What is the age range of SIDS?
Brain Chemical that regulates mood and vital functions such as breathing, heart rate, temperature, blood pressure and arousal states
What is serotonin?
Estimated percentage of parents and caretakers are not aware of the effects of shaking on a baby.
What is 25% - 50%?
It is more common in male children than female children 60% to 40%
What is the difference of occurrences of SIDS per gender?
The definition of Shaken Baby Syndrome
What is a medical term used to describe the violent shaking or violent shaking and impacting of the he'd of an infant or small child.
The sudden death of an apparently healthy infant that remains unexplained after an autopsy, case evaluation and death scene investigation.
What is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome?
It is found that the SIDS cases contained neurons but the receptors for receiving the serotonin were...
What is compromised?
Majority of offenders are what gender and which parent?
Who are men and father's of the child.
Since 1992 through the American Academy of Pediatrics the number of SIDS deaths has been reduced by 40%
What is the back for sleep campaign?
Occurs within hours or days
What is death?
Infants born weighing less than 5 to 6 pounds
Premature infants
Babies born from mothers under 20 years of age
Less than 18months between births
Babies born to mother who smoked or used drugs and /or alcohol during pregnancy
What are infants that are higher risk of SIDS
The inner ear is involved in maintaining infant's _______ during sleep and damage to the inner ear may hinder the________process
What is Breathing?
17% of shaken baby cases
What is the percentage of female child care providers that make up shaken baby cases
Respiratory illnesses are reduced by this natural process.
What is Breast Feeding
When a baby is shook the brain bounces inside the skull cavity which causes _______ of the brain tissue
Once blood begins to pool, it causes __________.
What is Bruising and swelling and pressure?
Periodic destabilization of systems that control sleeping, walking, breathing, heart rate, blood pressure and temperature.
Underlying defect in the brain that controls breathing and heard rate during early life
Outside environmental changes that a healthy infant can overcome but vulnerable infants may not
What are all three elements that must come together for SIDS to result?
African-American Babies are twice as likely to suffer from ______ as caucasian infants
25 extra points if you can list 2 reasons why
What is SIDS
What are sleeping positions and co-sleeping
13%
What is the number of shaken baby cases mothers make up
Almost 25% of all children 1 day to 3 years will die from this
What is Shaken Baby Syndrome?
3 causes of Shaking a baby
1. Bleeding occurs behind the eyes (retinal bleeding), which can cause blindness
2. Brain damage as a result of torn blood vessels in the brain
3. Once brain cells are damaged they can not be repaired
4. The swelling can push on the brain stem causing loss of breathing and heartbeat
For SIDS to occur 3 factors must be present
What are Critical Development Period
Vulnerable infant
Exogenous Stressors
__________ ___________ are 3 times more likely to have a SIDS death than Caucasians babies due to
Second hand smoke
Partially behavior based - over dressing of babies
Who are Native Americans?
60% more likely to be a victim of shaken baby syndrome
Boys
A babies head makes up _______% of their total body weight.
What is 25%?
When a child is shaken in anger, the force is multiplied by _________or___________ times more than if the child had simply fallen or tripped
What is 5 or 10 times?