Sleep and breathing in infants and young children / Igor A. Kelmanson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelʹmanson, I. A. (Igorʹ Aleksandrovich)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Infants--Sleep.

Infants.

Children--Sleep.

Children.

Sleep disorders in children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Biomedical Books, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book addresses one of the major issues of modern paediatrics: the relationship between sleep and breathing in infants. The content of this book is based on author's personal experience, as well as on up-to-date findings in the field. The necessity to present most important knowledge on sleep physiology, sleep structure in infants, mechanisms supporting respiration in the normal infants, functional changes in certain sleep stages, as well as on most characteristic forms of breathing disturbances in sleep in the infants was taken into consideration. Chronobiological aspects of functional respiratory characteristics have been tackled. Much attention has been paid to the quality of infant behaviour associated with sleep disturbances and breathing disturbances in sleep, relationship between micro environmental characteristics and sleep impairments. Possible association between infant apnoea and sudden infant death syndrome is considered; mechanisms of infant' snoring in sleep and its relation to the obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome is addressed; sleep-related breathing disturbances occurring against a background of chronic broncho-pulmonary diseases are discussed. breathing disturbances and to their treatment are considered.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-212) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61209-351-5

OCLC:

923668143