Infant Suffocation Deaths in the Sleep Environment
Thursday, March 24, 2011, 2:00-3:30pm Eastern
The theme of the 2011 National Public Health Week, April 4-10 is Safety is no Accident: Live Injury Free. (http://www.nphw.org) This webinar will encourage participants to focus on preventing infant suffocations. Suffocation is the leading cause of injury deaths to infants in the U.S., occurring at a rate four times greater than any other injury cause (>18/100,000 in 2007) and the rate quadrupled between 1994 and 2004. Some of this increase is due to improved investigations and a diagnostic shift away from SIDS, undetermined cause and other sudden and unexpected infant death (SUID) diagnoses. Most infant suffocations occur in sleep environments remarkably similar to those of infants dying from other SUID causes and these infants share many of the same risk factors. Join us in a webinar that will explore national and state efforts to improve the collection of data on infant suffocation deaths, our current knowledge of the circumstances of suffocation deaths in the sleep environment, and model state and local programs you can implement to help prevent infant suffocation deaths.
Objectives: Participants will be able to describe:
1. The scope of infant deaths from suffocation, and the pilot study for the national SUID Case Registry –an effort to help us better understand the circumstances and events in suffocation deaths. (Carrie Shapiro Mendoza and Lena Camperlengo)
2. The circumstances of the sleep environment for infant suffocation deaths as described by data from child death review teams. (Teri Covington)
3. Risk factors in infant suffocation deaths identified through child death review and the SUID Case Registry.
4. The scope of state efforts in risk reduction and prevention efforts and one state’s work to link injury prevention and MCH with state and local partners for a comprehensive infant safe sleep initiative. (Teri Covington and Lindsey Myers).
5. Examples of community-based safe sleep and suffocation prevention programs, including hospital based education, safe sleep education and crib distribution programs. (Michael Goodstein and Judy Bannon)
6. Examples of efforts in states and local communities to develop comprehensive SUID risk reduction and accidental suffocation prevention programs.
Presented by:
Carrie K. Shapiro-Mendoza, PhD, MPH: Team Leader and Lead Epidemiologist, Division of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Lena Camperlengo, RN, MPH, DrPH(c): EGS, Inc. Contractor, Project Coordinator, SUID Initiative, Division of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Theresa Covington, MPH: Executive Director, National Center for Child Death Review
Lindsey Myers, MPH: Injury Prevention Program Manager, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Michael Goodstein, MD, FAAP: Attending Neonatologist, York Hospital; Director, York County Cribs for Kids
Judy Bannon: Executive Director, Cribs for Kids & S.I.D.S. for Kids
Moderator:
CAPT Stephanie Bryn, MPH: Director, Injury and Violence Prevention, DCAFH, MCHB, HRSA
Date Presented:
Thursday, March 24, 2011
2:00-3:30pm Eastern