How SUDC Helps Professionals- Sudden Unexplained Death In Childhood (SUDC)

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Your Name*

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Office*

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Email*

Phone*

Child's Information
Child's Information

Name*

Date of Birth*

Date of Death*

Case is*

If complete, what is COD?

If complete, what is manner of death?

If case is pending, what month do you anticipate ruling on case?

Terminal history of child (last 24hours)*

Did the death occur during a sleep period?*

When found, what position was child's body and face?*

Significant Past Medical Histroy

Did child have history of
Febrile Seizures
Non-Febrile Seizures
Fainting spells
Sleep disorders

Is there a family history of
Febrile Seizures
Non-Febrile Seizures
Epilepsy
Cardiac Arrhythmias

Is case pending prosecution?

Is there any prior history of abuse or neglect in this family?*

Next of Kin
Next of Kin's Information

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Relation to child*

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		How We Help Professionals

Information - By providing you with up to date and accurate information about sudden unexplained deaths in childhood.
Research updates- By communicating new research publications and findings.
Advocacy in public policy and legislation: We support efforts to ensure that professionals have the resources and training to provide comprehensive and standardized investigations, as well as continued research into all sudden unexpected pediatric deaths.
Assisting you with the care of families experiencing a sudden pediatric death: see details below.

		How SUDC Help Familes

The SUDC Program can assist you when working with families who have experienced a post-infancy sudden unexpected pediatric death.

We can:

provide support services that include the peer support of trained SUDC parent and grandparent volunteers
- A monthly in-person support group is held in north New Jersey that gathers families from the NJ, NY and CT region.
provide accurate information regarding sudden unexpected and unexplained childhood deaths
provide accurate and up to date medical information evaluated by our Medical and Investigational Advisory Board for surviving family members and future pregnancies. This includes resources for multi-disciplinary clinics who genetically evaluate surviving family members of a sudden unexpected death.
provide accurate information regarding research opportunities and findings in the area of SUDC
provide long term information sharing regarding the advancement of medical knowledge surrounding SUDC.
(More detailed information on our complete services for families is available here.)

We accept pending cases, and prefer the contact with families as soon as possible after the initial autopsy is inconclusive.

We recommend our SUDC specific informational and support services to all families who have experienced a sudden unexpcted pediatric death in addition to general bereavement grief support services in your area.

Referrals can be made by:

1. Emailing us at info@sudc.org

2. Calling us at 800-620-SUDC

3. Or filling out the form to the left.

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