Minimizing the Risks of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: To Swaddle or Not to Swaddle?

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 155, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 475-481

  Richardson, Heidi L ^a   Walker, Adrian M ^a   Horne, Rosemary S C ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOTHING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SAFETY; SLEEP; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME;

AGE FACTORS; AROUSAL; BEDDING AND LINENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT CARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLEEP; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 70249146479     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2009.03.043     Document Type: Article

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