TY - JOUR T1 - Role of post-mortem investigations in determining the cause of sudden unexpected death in infancy JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 170 LP - 171 VL - 94 IS - 2 AU - G Ottaviani Y1 - 2009/02/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/94/2/170.2.abstract N2 - I read with interest the report of Weber et al1 describing the role of post-mortem investigations in determining the cause of sudden unexpected death in infancy. The authors focused on the utility of post-mortem investigations from a large paediatric autopsy series to inform future policy.In a large, single-institution, 10-year autopsy study, the authors found that 63% of paediatric post-mortem findings remained unexplained.1 Although I fully agree with the results and conclusions, I would like to place them into the larger context of the ongoing investigation on the cardiac conduction and brainstem … ER -