What is the difference between sids and suffocation

Skip directly to site content Skip directly to page options Skip directly to A-Z link. Section Navigation. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Syndicate. Data and Statistics. Minus Related Pages. Fast Facts. Unknown cause. Accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed. On This Page. It is a fear that drives 3 a. It does so without warning. And no one really knows how common it is. Most of those deaths remain unexplained. About one-quarter of them are eventually attributed to accidental suffocation or strangulation in sleeping environments.

Other theories have focused on possible breathing disorders, brain abnormalities, and damage to the inner ear. Since the s, caregivers have been instructed to place babies on their backs to sleep. And researchers are still scrambling to figure out why.

The idea was to track deaths at the state level, monitor trends, and to gather data that could improve death-scene investigations and might ultimately help prevent future deaths. Since , the registry has expanded from five states to In the meantime, though, there are many challenges.

For one thing—and this is perhaps the biggest thing—there are stark differences in how various states, and even separate jurisdictions within the same state, handle death-scene investigations and classifications. There is not a standard state-by-state definition. This code is used to identify infant deaths caused by suffocation or asphyxia blockage of the infant's airway in a sleeping environment. For example: Suffocation by soft bedding: When soft bedding, a pillow, or a waterbed mattress blocks the infant's airway.

Overlay: When another person shares the sleep surface with the infant and lays on or rolls on top of or against the infant while sleeping, blocking the infant's airway. Wedging or entrapment: When an infant gets trapped between two objects, such as a mattress and wall, bed frame, or furniture, blocking the infant's airway. Strangulation: When something presses on or wraps around the infant's head and neck blocking the airway.