Sleep and Breathing in Children
Subtitle: A Developmental Approach (Lung Biology in Health and Disease)
Contributors: Gerald M. Loughlin (Editor); John L. Carroll (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: May 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 867
ISBN-13: 9780824703004
Subjects: Paediatric medicine; Respiratory medicine; Sleep; Pediatrics; physiology; Developmental Pediatrics; Respiratory System Physiology; Medical / Nursing; Respiratory insufficiency in children; Medical; Respiratory insufficiency in c; Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Neuroscience; Medical / Internal Medicine; Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology; Sleep apnea syndromes; Children
First sentence: Since the landmark descriptions of cyclic modifications of respiratory, motor, and electroencephalographic (EEG) behavior in sleeping infants (1,2), it has been well known that vital functions are modulated by states of vigilance.