Making Sense of BRUE

Charting Pediatrics by Jessie Cohen

Jun 30, 202618:48Science & Medicine

It's one of the most unsettling calls a pediatrician can get: a baby who turned blue, stopped breathing or suddenly went limp , only to appear completely normal moments later . Welcome to the clinical gray zone of BRUE (...

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