The 2016 BRUE (Formerly ALTE) Guidelines From The American Academy of Pediatrics

Posted on September 8, 2016 by Tom Wade MD

What follows are charts and figures from the 2016 Brief Resolved Unexplained
Events (Formerly Apparent Life-Threatening Events) and Evaluation of Lower-Risk Infants (links in Resources below):

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Resources:

(1) Tieder JS, Bonkowsky JL, Etzel RA, Franklin WH, Gremse DA, Herman B, Katz ES, Krilov LR, Merritt JL 2nd, Norlin C, Percelay J, Sapién RE, Shiffman RN, Smith MB; SUBCOMMITTEE ON APPARENT LIFE THREATENING EVENTS.  Brief Resolved Unexplained Events (Formerly Apparent Life-Threatening Events) and Evaluation of Lower-Risk Infants [PubMed Abstract] [Full Text HTML] [Full Text PDF]. Pediatrics. 2016 May;137(5).

An error occurred in the American Academy of Pediatrics article, titled “Clinical Practice Guideline: Brief Resolved Unexplained Events (Formerly Apparent Life-Threatening Events) and Evaluation of Lower-Risk Infants” . In the algorithm (Fig 1), under Management Recommendations for Lower-Risk Infants, “laboratory evaluation for anemia” should have appeared in the “Should Not” box, not the “Need Not” box. The corrected algorithm appears in the online version of this article.

(2) Tieder JS, Bonkowsky JL, Etzel RA, Franklin WH, Gremse DA, Herman B, Katz ES, Krilov LR, Merritt JL 2nd, Norlin C, Percelay J, Sapién RE, Shiffman RN, Smith MB; SUBCOMMITTEE ON APPARENT LIFE THREATENING EVENTS. Brief Resolved Unexplained Events (Formerly Apparent Life-Threatening Events) and Evaluation of Lower-Risk Infants: Executive Summary Pediatrics [PubMed Abstract] [Full Text HTML] [Full Text PDF]. 2016 May;137(5).

An error occurred in the American Academy of Pediatrics article, titled “Clinical Practice Guideline: Brief Resolved Unexplained Events (Formerly Apparent Life-Threatening Events) and Evaluation of Lower-Risk Infants: Executive Summary” (Pediatrics 2016;137(5):e20160591. In the algorithm (Fig 1), under Management Recommendations for Lower-Risk Infants, “laboratory evaluation for anemia” should have appeared in the “Should Not” box, not the “Need Not” box. The corrected algorithm appears in the online version of this article.

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