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It is the pathological anatomy operational unit of the Santa Chiara Hospital, the reference center of the province of Trento for diagnostic feedback on victims of sudden infant death syndrome and unexpected fetal death.
This was established today Provincial government, on the recommendation of the councilor for health and social policies Mario Tonina, who identified in the Center the professional, environmental/structural and organizational requirements required by the Ministry of Health.
Sudden infant death syndrome or sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), also known as cot death, consists of the sudden death of a child aged between one month and one year.
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There SIDS definitionwhich does not correspond to a specific pathology, is applied when all other causes known to explain the death of the newborn are excluded, from malformations to malicious events.
However, some behaviors have been identified of risk factors which can significantly impact the likelihood of sudden death.
Actions capable of significantly reducing the incidence of SIDS, they are available on the institutional portal of the Ministry of Health and the Istituto Superiore di Sanità and are disseminated by the provincial company for health services as part of the birth process, parenting courses, as well as in the discharge letter that is delivered to mothers after the birth.
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At a national level, in order to improve knowledge of these forms of unexpected death and to prevent its onset, law 31/2006 was adopted, which provides for ch and infants within one year of life and fetuses after the twenty-fifth week of gestation, who died without apparent cause are subjected to diagnostic tests to be carried out in authorized centres.
The regulation provides that the Regions and autonomous Provinces shall ensure that, in their territory, the structures that perform the function of reference centers for the diagnostic testing of infants and fetuses deceased without apparent cause.
In March 2012, the provincial executive had identified the research center as a reference “Lino Rossi” of the University of Milan, since it had been evaluated that there were no scientific centers in Trentino equipped with the requirements established by law.
Subsequently, the draft agreement with the Santi Paolo e Carlo territorial health and social care company in Milan was approved, with the aim of bringing the APSS to a progressive autonomy of the professionals involved in this diagnosis.
With today’s resolution, this has been identified in the pathological anatomy unit of Santa Chiara the provincial reference centre, as it possesses the requirements set by the Ministry of Health.
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