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The Detective's Guide: Sudden, Unexplained Infant Death Investigations

The Detective's Guide: Sudden, Unexplained Infant Death Investigations

Quinn, Mark

Paperback

General Law

ISBN10: 1492755923
ISBN13: 9781492755920
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 20 2013
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.51 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Infant Death: Natural causes, accidental death, or homicide?

Sudden unexplained infant death (SUID) is the sudden and unexpected death of an infant due to natural or unnatural causes. Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is one of several causes of SUID. However, SIDS, unlike the other SUID causes, is a diagnosis that is reached when all other causes have been eliminated. Although most conditions or diseases usually are diagnosed by the presence of specific symptoms, SIDS is a diagnosis that should be given only after all other possible causes of sudden, unexplained death have been ruled out through a careful case investigation, which includes a thorough examination of the death scene, a complete autopsy, and a review of the infant's medical history. Suffocation, drowning, electrocution, hyperthermia, hypothermia, carbon monoxide poisoning, and homicide are examples of other causes of SUID that can be explained after a careful case investigation. A thorough death scene investigation, as described in this book, is often the only way to make a distinction between SIDS and suffocation as a cause of death.

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