In 2022, there was a decrease in births in the state with 111 fewer resident newborns than in the previous year. This represented a decrease of 1% of its white and 3.5% of its AIBO (American Indian, Black and Other) births.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn 2021, South Dakota observed an increase in the number of births from 2020 when the state experienced its lowest historic birth rate. Nonetheless, this increase represented a 3.7 percent decrease from the state's previous five year (2016-2020) mean of live births.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe total number of 2020 resident births in South Dakota continues to decline with a 4 percent decrease from the previous year yielding the state's lowest crude birth rate (12.3 per 1,000 population) since its first recording in 1910. Currently, similar to the U.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInfant deaths that occur unexpectedly during sleep have been attributed over generations to various explanations for this shocking and tragic loss of life. Historically, these deaths have been coded as caused by sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), which defied prevention. This paper explores the evolution of understanding SIDS to the current use of the term sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) defined by the Centers for Disease Control as including three causes: SIDS, accidental strangulation and suffocation in bed (ASSB) and unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBetween 2015 and 2019, the total number of births in South Dakota declined by 7 percent. As infant mortality rates are calculated per 1,000 live births, slight increases or decreases in total deaths and deaths due to specific causes manifest in notable shifts in yearly infant mortality rates (IMR). In 2019, 10 more infants died than in 2018 (80 vs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe year 2018 continued a three-year trend of decreasing live resident births in South Dakota with increased racial diversity among the minority cohort of newborns. In 2018 there was a decrease in very low birth weight newborns and this was reflected in a decline from the previous year's infant mortality rate (IMR) of 7.8 to 5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn 2017, similar to 2016, there was a decrease in total live resident births in South Dakota. Racial minorities comprised 25 percent of these newborns, demonstrating a similar pattern of diversity among births observed nationwide. Unlike 2016, when the state recorded its lowest ever rate of infant mortality (4.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Regional Infant and Child Mortality Review Committee serves 10 counties in southeastern South Dakota and aims for its reviews to prevent future loss of life during childhood. The Committee reviewed 29 deaths in 2017 (compared to 32 cases in 2013, 25 in 2014, 24 in 2015, and 25 in 2016). In 2017, four deaths in the region were attributable to homicide, including, for the first time in the 21 years of the Committee's reviews, two cases involving adolescents.
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February 2019
Objective: Sudden Unexpected Infant Deaths (SUID) is defined as a combination of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), Unknown Cause of Death (UCD) and Accidental Suffocation and Strangulation in Bed (ASSB). Overall rates from 2000 to 2015 have been trending down. Racial differences in occurrence are seen.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThere was a slight decrease in 2016 from 2015 in the total number of live births in South Dakota, but it was the fifth consecutive year that there were more than 12,000 newborns in the state. Nearly one-quarter of South Dakota's births represent minority populations mirroring what is observed nationally. Infant mortality in South Dakota dropped to its lowest ever rate per 1,000 live births (4.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Regional Infant and Child Mortality Review Committee serves 10 counties in southeastern South Dakota and aims to use its reviews to prevent future loss of life during childhood. In 2016, the Committee reviewed 25 deaths (compared to 32 cases in 2013, 25 in 2014, and 24 in 2015). In 2016, three deaths in the region were attributable to maltreatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn 2015, there was an increase in the number of births in South Dakota compared to the previous year. Further, the state's 2014 birth rate (14.4) exceeded the 12.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Regional Infant and Child Mortality Review Committee serves 10 counties in southeastern South Dakota and aims to use its reviews to prevent future loss of life during childhood. In 2015, the committee reviewed 24 deaths (compared to 32 cases in 2013 and 25 cases in 2014). Consistent with observations made in previous years, in 2015 all infants (n=7) who died during sleep did so with risks present in the sleep environment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe rate for the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in Cape Town, South Africa, is estimated to be among the highest in the world (3.41/1000 live births). In several of these areas, including those of extreme poverty, only sporadic, nonstandardized infant autopsy, and death scene investigation (DSI) occurred.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn 2014 there was an increase in the number of births in the state with 24 percent representing minority populations. This year also brought a decrease from 2013 in deaths for infants, yielding an infant mortality rate of deaths per 1,000 live births (5.9) slightly below that of the most current national rate of 6.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBeyond errors in diagnosis, procedural errors in completing the cause of death statement for the death certificate can usually be placed into a few distinct categories. Physicians often forget, after struggling to deal with a litany of medical problems, that an external event, usually trauma, brought a patient into their care in the first place. In these instances, the death needs to be reported to the coroner and the coroner must certify the death (since it was the external event that actually started the chain of events leading to the death).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe level of certainty needed to assign a cause of death may be problematic. The certification regulations stipulate that a certifier only needs to believe that a proposed cause of death be more likely than not (i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe cause of death statement is the core of the death certification process for the physician certifier. The World Health Organization defines the cause of death as the disease or injury that initiates a chain of events leading to death. This cause of death needs to be listed at the bottom of the cause of death statement with the events the cause of death initiated (mechanisms of death) listed above in a direct causal relationship (cause of death 'A,' initiated process 'B,' that in turn caused process 'C,' that in turn produced 'D,' that directly led to the death).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlike the medical record, the death certificate is a public legal document that deserves the certifier's best intellectual effort to complete. The death certificate serves a variety of purposes, to include: A. Legal proof of death, usually necessary for a family to receive social security, health insurance, and other death benefits.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVery little is known about the alcohol elimination rates of newborns who have had chronic alcohol exposure in utero. In these case reports, blood alcohol levels were taken immediately before delivery, at delivery, and postdelivery for 2 mothers who drank alcohol during their pregnancies and 3 single-birth newborns. Newborn A1 of Mother A had no physical characteristics of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhysiologically appropriate levels of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are likely important to varied aspects of CNS function. In particular, these enzymes may contribute to neuronal activity dependent synaptic plasticity and to cell mobility in processes including stem cell migration and immune surveillance. Levels of MMPs may, however, be substantially increased in the setting of HIV infection with methamphetamine abuse.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe 2010 annual report of the Regional Infant and Child Mortality Review Committee (RICMRC) is presented. Since 1997, RICMRC has sought to achieve its mission to "review infant and child deaths so that information can be transformed into action to protect young lives." For the year 2010, the Committee reviewed 15 deaths from Minnehaha, Turner, Lincoln, Moody, Lake, McCook, Union, Hanson, Miner and Brookings counties that met the following criteria: Children under age 18 dying subsequent to hospital discharge following delivery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCurrent classification schemes for sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) may not be optimal for capturing scene events that potentially predispose to asphyxia. (1) To compare causes of death in a group of SUID cases assigned by multiple reviewers using our recently published classification scheme for SUID that is based on asphyxial risk at the death scene, and (2) To compare these newly assigned causes of death to that originally assigned by the medical examiners of record who performed the autopsies. Five reviewers independently assigned causes of death for 117 cases of SUID, including 83 originally diagnosed as sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), accessioned into the San Diego SIDS/SUDC Research Project from the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFResearch in sudden death in fetuses (stillbirth) and infants (sudden infant death syndrome [SIDS]) is urgently needed, particularly in high-risk populations involving socioeconomic disadvantaged families. Essential to such research is the analysis of fetal and infant tissues at autopsy. Obtaining consent for donating autopsy tissues for research is especially problematic in socioeconomically disadvantaged populations in which mistrust of the medical establishment often exists.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe 2009 annual report of the Regional Infant and Child Mortality Review Committee (RICMRC) is presented. Since 1997, RICMRC has sought to achieve its mission to "review infant and child deaths so that information can be transformed into action to protect young lives." For the year 2009, the Committee reviewed 23 deaths from Minnehaha, Turner, Lincoln, Moody, Lake, McCook, Union, Hanson, Miner and Brookings counties that met the following criteria: Children under age 18 dying subsequent to hospital discharge following delivery.
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