BRUE | tea? coffee? unresponsive episode?

A BRUE (Brief Resolved Unexplained Event) is an event in an infant that is characterised by a marked change in either:

• Breathing
• Tone
• Colour
• Level of responsiveness

Followed by a complete return to a baseline state, and that cannot be explained by a medical cause.

A BRUE is a diagnosis of exclusion.

In this episode we discuss:

• A case
• Diagnostic criteria
• Describing the condition to a patient
• Differentials for BRUE
• The history of BRUE and "apparent life threatening events"
• When to investigate further
• A discussion about the use of apnoea monitors

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(This isn’t individual medical advice, please use your own clinical judgement and local guidelines when caring for your patients)