Abstract
Educational aims The reader will be able to:
Understand normal sleep patterns in infancy
Appreciate disorders of breathing in infancy
Appreciate disorders of respiratory control
Normal sleep in infancy is a time of change with alterations in sleep architecture, sleep duration, sleep patterns and respiratory control as an infant grows older. Interactions between sleep and respiration are key to the mechanisms by which infants are vulnerable to sleep disordered breathing.
This review discusses normal sleep in infancy, as well as normal sleep breathing in infancy. Sleep disordered breathing (obstructive and central) as well as disorders of ventilatory control and infant causes of hypoventilation are all reviewed in detail.
Abstract
This review covers sleep in infancy, a time of adaptation when infants are vulnerable to sleep disordered breathing http://ow.ly/YKzVO
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Conflict of interest None declared.
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