Sleep and breathing in infants and young children [electronic resource] /
Igor A. Kelmanson.
- New York : Nova Biomedical Books, c2006.
- xii, 226 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-212) and index.
Polysomnography as the objective method of sleep study -- Basic knowledge on sleep neurophysiology -- Sleep ontogeny -- Sleep chronobiology -- The mechanisms responsible for the maintenance of respiration -- Respiratory and other physiological characteristics during sleep -- Arousals -- Major forms of sleep disorders in infants and young children and approaches to their correction -- Apnea of prematurity and infantile apnea -- Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) -- Central hypoventilation -- Apparent life-threatening events (ALTE) -- Sleep disordered breathing and chronic pulmonary diseases -- Approaches to evaluation and management in cases of sleep disordered breathing in infants and young children -- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome : definition and epidemiology -- SIDS and sleep disordered breathing -- Infant behavioral characteristics associated with SIDA and its risk factors -- Model of SIDS and preventive strategies.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Infants--Sleep. Children--Sleep. Sleep disorders in children.