Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Basic and advanced cardiac life support in children".)

Canada

●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Position statement on the importance of child and youth death review (2013, reaffirmed 2020)

●CPS: Position statement on facilitating discharge from hospital of the healthy term infant (2018)

●CPS: Practice point on positional plagiocephaly (2011, reaffirmed 2018)

●CPS: Practice point on supporting and communicating with families experiencing a perinatal loss (2018)

●CPS: Position statement on the assessment of cardiorespiratory stability using the infant car seat challenge before discharge in preterm infants (<37 weeks' gestational age) (2016)

United States

●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Policy statement on SIDS and other sleep‐related infant deaths – Expansion of recommendations for a safe infant sleeping environment (2011, reaffirmed 2020)

•AAP: Policy statement on SIDS and other sleep-related infant deaths – Updated recommendations for a safe infant sleeping environment (2016)

●AAP: Technical report on SIDS and other sleep-related infant deaths – Expansion of recommendations for a safe infant sleeping environment (2011, reaffirmed 2020)

•AAP: Technical report on SIDS and other sleep-related infant deaths – Evidence-base for updated recommendations for a safe infant Sleeping environment (2016)

●Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Sudden unexpected infant death and sudden infant death syndrome

●CDC: Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and vaccines (2020)

●Choosing Wisely: Infant home apnea monitors should not be routinely used to prevent sudden death syndrome (SIDS) (2014, updated 2018)

●AAP: Clinical report for supporting the family after the death of a child (2012, reaffirmed 2016)

●CDC: Infant death investigation – Guidelines for the scene investigator (2007)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on postnatal care (2021)

●NICE: Quality standard on postnatal care (2013, updated 2021)

Australia–New Zealand

●Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ): Guidelines for cardiac genetic investigation of young sudden unexpected death and resuscitated out of hospital cardiac arrest (2011)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Choosing Wisely Japan: Home apnea monitor for SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) when needed - when not needed? (2016, updated 2018)

●[In English] Japanese Circulation Society (JCS): Guidelines for risks and prevention of sudden cardiac death (2010, published 2012)