Joel S Tieder, Joshua L Bonkowsky, Ruth A Etzel, Wayne H Franklin, David A Gremse, Bruce Herman, Eliot S Katz, Leonard R Krilov, J Lawrence Merritt, Chuck Norlin, Jack Percelay, Robert E SapiƩn, Richard N Shiffman, Michael B H Smith
This is the first clinical practice guideline from the American Academy of Pediatrics that specifically applies to patients who have experienced an apparent life-threatening event (ALTE). This clinical practice guideline has 3 objectives. First, it recommends the replacement of the term ALTE with a new term, brief resolved unexplained event (BRUE). Second, it provides an approach to patient evaluation that is based on the risk that the infant will have a repeat event or has a serious underlying disorder. Finally, it provides management recommendations, or key action statements, for lower-risk infants...
May 2016: Pediatrics