Can Home Monitoring Help Prevent SIDS?
setTopicVideo(); –> Because no one really knows what causes SIDS, numerous studies have tried to determine whether or not home monitoring may help prevent it. To date, there is no solid evidence that home monitoring products actually prevent SIDS. However, SIDS research is definitely helping narrow the focus of where scientists need to direct their attention in the future. A 2001 study called the Collaborative Home Infant Monitoring Evaluation (CHIME), which was funded by the NICHD, suggests that episodes of prolonged cessation of breathing or prolonged slowing of heart rate in infants, believed to be potential indicators of risk of SIDS, primarily occur before the developmental age when most SIDS deaths occur. The findings, which appeared in the May 2, 2001, Journal of the American Medical Association, suggest that these events are not necessarily signs of impending SIDS. According to the NIHCD, breathing stoppage, called apnea, and slowed heart rate, called bradycardia, have long be
