Society guideline links: Sudden unexpected infant death including SIDS

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

The recommendations in the following guidelines may vary from those that appear in UpToDate topic reviews. Readers who are looking for UpToDate topic reviews should use the UpToDate search box to find the relevant content.

Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Basic and advanced cardiac life support in children".)

International

●World Health Organization (WHO): Recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience (2022)

Canada

●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Position statement on the importance of child and youth death review (2013, reaffirmed 2020)

●CPS: Position statement on facilitating discharge from hospital of the healthy term infant (2018)

●CPS: Practice point on supporting and communicating with families experiencing a perinatal loss (2018)

●CPS: Position statement on the assessment of cardiorespiratory stability using the infant car seat challenge before discharge in preterm infants (<37 weeks' gestational age) (2016)

United States

●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Sleep-related infant deaths – Updated recommendations for reducing infant deaths in the sleep environment (2022)

●AAP: Technical report – Evidence-base for updated recommendations for a safe infant sleeping environment to reduce the risk of sleep-related infant deaths (2022)

●Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Sudden unexpected infant death and sudden infant death syndrome