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.

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