Infant Safe Sleep : A Pocket Guide for Clinicians / edited by Rachel Y. Moon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moon, Rachel, Editor.

Series:

Medicine Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pediatrics.

Gynecology.

Midwifery.

Local Subjects:

Pediatrics.

Gynecology.

Midwifery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XVI, 377 p. 33 illus., 28 illus. in color.)

Edition:

2nd ed. 2025.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.

Summary:

This book is a practical, comprehensive look at safe sleep for infants, including infants with co-occurring medical conditions. It offers guidance for clinicians who are counseling parents and other infant caretakers, and discusses common barriers to adherence and approaches that are evidence-based or use behavior change theory. Chapters focus on pathophysiology, important aspects of the sleep environment, and infant product safety. There is a closing chapter on grief and counselling families after a loss. Chapters open with a clinical vignette and close with a discussion of frequently encountered questions, and clinical pearls and pitfalls. All chapters have been fully revised to include the most current research. Three new chapters have been added on the genetics of sudden and unexpected death, infant biomechanics and implications for safe sleep, and firm and flat sleep surfaces. Infant Safe Sleep, 2e, is a valuable resource for pediatricians, other clinicians, healthcare and public health professionals, and others caring for children.

Contents:

Why this book is important

How Pathophysiology Explains Risk and Protective Factors

The Genetics of Sudden and Unexpected Death

Infant Biomechanics and Implications for Safe Sleep

Safe sleep recommendations

The importance of the perception of risk

Parent decision-making and how to influence decisions

Supine (Back) Sleep Position

Firm and flat Sleep surfaces

Roomsharing without bedsharing

Breastfeeding without bedsharing

Avoidance of soft bedding and soft surfaces

Baby products: how to evaluate them for potential safety

Special Situations: Co-occurring Health Conditions

If the Unthinkable Happens: Families after a Sudden and Unexpected Infant Death

Advocating for Safe Sleep.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783031842948

3031842944

OCLC:

1514862163