Death of infants in Patras: Sudden death or virus without symptom? What experts say

The “Sudden Death Syndrome” seems to be due to the death of 2.5 months that shocked her The coordinated efforts of the doctors of the hospital in Patras, where the infant was transported by his parents, were not able to keep it alive. Professor and director of the Pediatric Clinic of the University Hospital of Patras Gabriel Demetrios told pelop.gr that: “from a medical point of view everything has happened. Although two recovery attempts were made within a few hours, defibrillator was used after the ventricular fibrillation that appeared and became intubation, the infant did not succeed” . He added that “there was a necropsy and tissue will be sent to see if the infant brought about an asymptomatic virus that caused his death, as no problem had been diagnosed.” That is what the unfortunate parents of the infant assure. According to Mr. Demetriou, the baby was fed by the mother and put to bed in his crib. Suddenly in the evening his crying awakened the parents, who rushed to his crib and saw that their child was not well. They immediately moved it to the University Hospital, where doctors found it was not even tight. So they started the process of reassignment. They managed to restore it. He then had abdominal fibrillation and with the use of defibrillator they achieved his recovery, which did not last long, as within a few minutes he exhaled. “We will wait for the results of the histological tests, but it seems to be a sudden Infant Death Syndrome,” Mr.Dimitriou told us. It explains that the syndrome involving infants older than the month, more often 2 to 3 months, can also occur in a newborn or even a 1st-year-old child, has no cause and is not associated with any localized medical finding.