949. Etiologies of ALTEs / ED workup
948. Helpful interventions in managing an unexpected infant death / Pathophysiology of ALTE, relationship to SIDS // How often is a causal diagnosis reached in ALTE workups? / Disposition of ALTE?
Memo from Medical Examiner, June 2015 – indications for ME (new york city)
All forms of criminal violence or from an unlawful act or criminal neglect
All accidents (motor vehicle, industrial, home, public place, etc.)
All suicides
All deaths that are caused or contributed to by drug and/or chemical overdose or poisoning
Sudden death of a person in apparent good health (without significant past medical history associated with sudden death, such as coronary artery disease, etc.)
Deaths of all persons in legal detention, jails or police custody. This category also includes any prisoner who is a patient in a hospital, regardless of the duration of hospital confinement.
Deaths which occur during diagnostic or therapeutic procedures or from complications of such procedures
Deaths due to disease, injury or toxic agent resulting from employment
Deaths which occur in any suspicious or unusual manner
947. Define breath-holding spell, potential sequelae / OK for infant to sleep on side? / Etiology of SIDS / When to involve CPS
946. Define periodic breathing / Define ALTE / RFs for SIDS including modifiable RFs
945. Define SIDS / What has reduced SIDS rate by 40%? / Peak incidence of SIDS / Define pathologic apnea
877. Approach to the jaundiced infant / Indications for workup (usually admit)
876. Breast milk jaundice vs. breast feeding jaundice vs. physiologic jaundice / What % of newborns have jaundice? / Indications for immediate exchange transfusion
875. Causes of direct hyperbilirubinemia / Toxic bili level in infant – risk for kernicterus / Kernicterus pathophys, s/sx
874. Basic life cycle of bilirubin / At what level does jaundice become apparent? / Definition of conjugated hyperbilirubinemia / Causes of unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia
<20% of bilirubin conjugated = Unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia
>50% of bilirubin conjugated = Conjugated hyperbilirubinemia