Pacifier use does not alter the frequency or duration of spontaneous arousals in sleeping infants

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 464-470

  Hanzer, Marie ^a   Zotter, Heinz ^a   Sauseng, Werner ^a   Pfurtscheller, Klaus ^a   Müller, Wilhelm ^a   Kerbl, Reinhold ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b General Hospital of Leoben   (Austria)

Author keywords

Induced arousal; Infant; Pacifier; Polysomnography; Spontaneous arousal; Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PACIFIER; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP TIME; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; TIME PERCEPTION; WAKEFULNESS;

AROUSAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PACIFIERS; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67349253811     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2008.03.014     Document Type: Article

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