Table 1.

Definitions of sudden cardiac death (SCD) and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) [6].

	SCD	SIDS
Age	Over 1 year old	Under 1 year old
Evaluation	Unforeseen death of natural origin, with an unknown or cardiac cause	Absence of findings in pathology, toxicology, and forensic analysis
Time of death	Within one hour of symptom onset in witnessed cases and within 24 h of the last confirmed sighting in unwitnessed incidents

SCD—sudden cardiac death; SIDS—sudden infant death syndrome.