Daily Archives: May 21, 2009

THE SICK BABY AND CHILD: APPARENT LIFE THREATENING EPISODES (ALTE)

A number of babies have these episodes, which in the past have sometimes been called ‘near miss SIDS’. The baby is found limp, sometimes blue, sometimes unconscious or unresponsive and not breathing. Varying degrees of stimulation seem necessary to revive him, ranging from noise or gentle movement of a limb to full blown resuscitation including [...]