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Description

Method of Participation in the Learning Process/Evaluation Method

Successful completion of this activity includes reading the entire article and successfully completing the post-quiz and an evaluation form.

Getting the Most out of the Activity

As you prepare to participate in this activity, please reflect on your practice and your patients and identify clinical challenges you hope to have addressed.

While participating in the training, identify ways you can use newly acquired knowledge, strategies, and skills to enhance patient outcomes and your own professional development.

Learning Objectives

After completing this continuing education activity you will be able to:

  1. Define sudden unexplained death in childhood (SUDC) and discuss the latest related genetic findings.
  2. Discuss the frequent relationship of SUDC to seizures that are often febrile.
  3. Identify neuropathologic findings associated with SUDC.
  4. Describe the relationship between SUDC, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), sudden unexplained cardiac death, and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP).

Disclosures

Dr. Wocjik is a consultant for Illumina and Sanofi and supported by NIH/NICHD K23102589. The remaining authors, faculty, and staff have no relevant financial relationships with any ineligible organizations regarding this educational activity.

The contents of this manuscript are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the National Insitutes of Health.

Lippincott CME Institute has identified and mitigated all relevant financial relationships regarding this educational activity.

Price: FREE

Credits:

  • ACCME 1.0 CME

Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Planner
Professions: Physician
Test Code: PEC1223B
Published: December 2023
Expires: 11/30/2025
Sources: Pediatric Emergency Care
Required Passing Score: 4/5 (80%)
Authors: Monica H. Wojcik, MD, MPH, Henry F. Krous, MD, and Richard D. Goldstein, MD
Categories: Emergency Medicine , Pediatrics
Specialties: Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics
Topics: Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood (SUDC)