Comment on: A commentary on changing infant death rates and a plea to use sudden infant death syndrome as a cause of death

摘要

Krous [1] recently published "a plea to use sudden infant death syndrome as a cause of death" instead of a cause of death related to asphyxial risk factors that are non-fatal per se. It is interesting to note that Gilbert-Barness and Barness [2] published an invited editorial in 1993 that made a completely opposite plea. They reasoned that SIDS is not a cause of death, but rather a term for a death of unknown cause, and concluded as follows:We make a plea that the term SIDS [Sudden Infant Death Syndrome] be abandoned and the diagnosis sudden infant death be substituted, with the qualifications implicit in each case. It is only by so doing that we will identify the causes of sudden infant death. [2]