PEDIATRICS Vol. 90 No. 5 November 1992, pp. 782-783
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Sleeping Position and Sudden Infant Death

LEWIS A. BARNESS MD1 and ENID GILBERT-BARNESS MD1

1 Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin 53792

To the Editor.—

The recognition by the Academy1 that altering the recommendation for the sleeping position of infants may lower the incidence of sudden infant death may help decrease the diagnosis of sudden infant death syndrome as one of us (E. G.-B.) reported in 19892 and as Professor John Emery reported in 1968.3 In addition, recognition of other possible causes of sudden infant death,4 eg, beds and bedding, overlying, metabolic diseases, child abuse, and felicide will further help to limit the diagnosis of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, essentially a diagnosis of unknown cause made by exclusion.