The Florida SIDS Alliance supports research into the unexplained deaths of infants through The Florida SIDS/SUID Family Fund at Boston Children’s Hospital Robert’s Program.
Robert’s Program on Sudden Unexpected Death in Pediatrics provides research into the cause of SIDS/SUID, along with sudden unexplained death in childhood, Currently, there is no way to identify living infants at risk of SIDS. But the development of such a test is a major goal of SIDS research at Children’s.
Recent autopsy data provide the strongest evidence yet that sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) has a concrete biological basis. Children’s neuropathologist Hannah Kinney, MD, and colleagues have found that babies who die from SIDS have abnormalities in the brainstem, the part of the brain that controls breathing; that responds to re-breathing too much carbon dioxide; and that regulates blood pressure and body temperature — all of which are important in sleeping and waking.
Dr. Kinney and colleagues are currently working towards a means of identifying those infants who are at increased risk of SIDS, with the ultimate goal of developing a treatment that will protect them from SIDS
For more information on the Robert’s Program, SIDS, and other areas of research:
https://www.childrenshospital.org/services/roberts-program
https://www.childrenshospital.org/conditions-treatments/sudden-infant-death-syndrome-sids