{"id":62756,"date":"2020-08-25T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=62756"},"modified":"2020-08-24T19:34:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T23:34:19","slug":"team-vienna-4-sudc-awareness-and-the-sudc-coalition-lead-charge-in-sudc-medical-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/team-vienna-4-sudc-awareness-and-the-sudc-coalition-lead-charge-in-sudc-medical-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Vienna 4 SUDC Awareness and The SUDC Coalition lead charge in SUDC medical education"},"content":{"rendered":"

RED BANK, N.J., Aug. 25, 2020 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — In 2017, healthy Vienna Carly Savino tragically died at two and a half years of age. She fell asleep while watching TV in Holmdel, NJ and never woke up again. Her death was categorized as Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood (SUDC). As a result, Dr. Denise Wunderler, DO, FAOASM, Vienna\u2019s mother, founded Team Vienna 4 SUDC Awareness and co-founded the SUDC Coalition. She\u2019s quickly gaining traction on the national and international stage in the field of SUDC education.<\/p>\n

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PHOTO CAPTION: Dr. Wunderler with her daughter Vienna, whose death was categorized as Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood (SUDC).<\/em><\/p>\n

Most recently, the Dean of Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine (ARCOM), Dr. Rance McClain, made an official commitment to add SUDC to the yearly medical curriculum, beginning with the 2020-2021 academic school year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are excited to team up with Dr. Wunderler and teach our students about this critical unknown topic,\u201d McClain says.<\/p>\n

The curriculum will likely begin with teaching SUDC with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) during the first two years of medical school, then reinforcing the information with a case study module based on Vienna\u2019s tragic story, in the third year. Wunderler will work directly with the medical school to assist in these educational goals and continue her trailblazing efforts in honor of all SUDC kids. Other medical schools across the country have since committed to following a similar path and are working with her as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cARCOM is the first medical school (to our knowledge) in the world to have made such an important commitment to cutting-edge knowledge for its medical students,\u201d Wunderler says.<\/p>\n

Over the past one and a half years, Wunderler has presented her Medical Grand Rounds lecture, \u201cSudden Unexplained Death in Childhood (SUDC): My Personal Tragedy,\u201d multiple times. She\u2019s appeared at Penn Medicine\/Princeton Medical Center (NJ), Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (NJ), Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (Middletown, NY), Staten Island University Hospital (NY), Ocean Medical Center (NJ) and others.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo our knowledge, SUDC is not officially included in any medical curriculum in the U.S. or any other country,\u201d Wunderler says.<\/p>\n

Shockingly, most physicians have never heard of SUDC, as was the case with Vienna\u2019s parents \u2013 both physicians. They were familiar with SIDS, which applies to thoroughly investigated unexplained deaths in babies under one year old. SUDC addresses ages one through 18 years old. Even Vienna\u2019s genetic studies (as part of a research study) did not reveal a cause of death. There are no causes and no preventative measures known for SUDC.<\/p>\n

Dr. Wunderler has turned this personal tragedy into an educational opportunity. Her presentations have garnered glowing reviews and this peer-named, \u201csuperwoman\u201d has had her lectures described as \u201cpassionate,\u201d \u201cwonderful,\u201d powerful,\u201d \u201csensitive,\u201d \u201cinspirational\u201d and \u201cmoving.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information: https:\/\/vienna.team\/<\/a>; and https:\/\/www.sudccoalition.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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