Infants sometimes experience sudden symptoms such as breathing irregularities or limpness that frighten parents and prompt them to seek emergency medical care. While few of these episodes are truly life-threatening and require hospital admission, some parents may have been so frightened that they will resist returning home from the emergency department with their baby even if the objective risk is extremely small. Study subjects (parents of infants with an apparent life threatening event) will be contacted and interviewed. Investigators want to learn whether or not study subjects would accept returning home after a brief period of observation in the emergency department if the physician determines that it is safe to do so.
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Parental comfort level with disposition home from emergency department
Timeframe: Subject will be asked to describe their experiences in the ER when their infant was undergoing an evaluation following an apparent life-threatening event. Subject will be interviewed face-to-face or by telephone within 3 years of the event.