Open AccessAn environmental stimulus for sudden death in infancy
Author(s) -
Philip Dickinson
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
the journal of the acoustical society of america
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619
H-Index - 187
eISSN - 1520-8524
pISSN - 0001-4966
DOI - 10.1121/1.2017874
Subject(s) - stimulus (psychology) , sudden death , audiology , medicine , psychology , cardiology , cognitive psychology
The results of a detailed examination of the circumstances surrounding all cases of Sudden Infant Death (Crib Death) in Utah over a 3‐yr period, strongly suggest the influence of an environmental stimulus or trigger. Of the parameters investigated the leading candidate at the moment appears to be low‐frequency noise—either naturally occurring in some sizes of family home, or produced in a moving automobile.
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