Apnoea monitoring and cot deaths.

Cot deaths: the aftermath.

Sleep apnoea occurring only in REM (possible relevance of the case for some cot deaths).

Physical factors When 16 years old, he was knocked out in a landmine explosion. Both arms were fractured and he had abdominal and chest injuries. At 21 years he suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis. He was treated with a phrenic nerve crush and with surgical pneumothoraces which were corrected in 1949. He has since suffered from chronic bronchitis each winter. Physical examination revealed the ...

Vaccination and cot deaths in perspective.

In 1985 twin boys simultaneously succumbed to sudden unexpected deaths two to three hours after vaccination with diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccine (DTP). This occurrence again raises the question of whether an association of sudden infant death (SID) with vaccination is other than temporal. Taking the incidence of SID in conjunction with rates of infant vaccination in the United Kingdo...

Unexpected postneonatal deaths ( cot deaths ) due to recognizable disease PATRICIA

McWeeny, P. M., and Emery, J. L. (1975). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 50, 191. Unexpected postneonatal deaths (cot deaths) due to recognizable disease. At least a quarter of the babies dying as unexpected home 'cot deaths' do so from recognizable diseases. A study of the background of such children, compared with age and admission controls, suggests that the disease symptomatology in this ...

Unexpected postneonatal deaths (cot deaths) due to recognizable disease.

At least a quarter of the babies dying as unexpected home 'cot deaths' do so from recognizable diseases. A study of the background of such children, compared with age and admission controls, suggests that the disease symptomatology in this group of children differs in no way from children who are successfully treated. The factors leading to the death of these children appear to lie in the gener...