A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy

Re:A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trau... by emodendroket on Thursday September 28, 2023 @10:41AM (#37690222)

Some measures that reportedly reduce “SIDS” include assembling the crib properly and not putting soft objects that could smother the baby in the crib. Risk factors include lower parental educational attainment. You tell me if I’m being unreasonable attributing a death from the crib collapsing to suffocation and not a mysterious, poorly understood disease.

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Re:A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trau... by stdbrouw on Thursday September 28, 2023 @01:16PM (#37692684)

I mean, I don't mind, you can attribute whatever to whatever and yeah, a crib full of plush toys doesn't seem like such a smart idea... but the question is what a doctor should do, how we want them to behave in the face of limited evidence.

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Re:A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trau... by emodendroket on Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:06PM (#37693330)

SIDS is intended as a diagnosis of last resort but is often used with little digging so it's not really any different than the case this article discusses, except with the opposite result. I never demanded that doctors start doing something different but I think it's pretty obvious we're just collectively leaving some stones unturned here.

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