Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Problems, Progress and Possibilities

By Roger W. Byard

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the epidemiology, pathology and physiology of SIDS. It gives an emphasis to new theories of causation, new diagnostic approaches, recent changes in epidemiology, recently developed international protocols and analyses of current problems in both the diagnosis and approach to SIDS. In addition, parental concerns, medicolegal issues and the perspective of different ethnic groups are also featured. The text contains a wide variety of topics and viewpoints from many highly respected SIDS researchers from Australasia, Europe, and North America.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340759178
• ISBN13: 9780340759172
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.