Effects of prone and supine position on sleep characteristics in preterm infants

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 315-317

  Goto, Kazuya ^a   Maeda, Tomoki ^a   Mirmiran, Majid ^b   Ariagno, Ronald ^b  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Body position; Preterm infants; Sleep; Sudden infant death syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT POSITIONING; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREMATURITY; SLEEP PARAMETERS; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; VIDEORECORDING;

AROUSAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRONE POSITION; SLEEP STAGES; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH; SUPINE POSITION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0033066994     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.1999.00549.x     Document Type: Article

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