A comparison of respiratory patterns in healthy term infants placed in car safety seats and beds

Pediatrics

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Cerar, Lilijana Kornhauser ^a   Scirica, Christina V ^b   Gantar, Irena Štucin ^a   Osredkar, Damjan ^a   Neubauer, David ^a   Kinane, T Bernard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Apnea; Bradycardia; Car bed; Car seat; Newborn; Oxygen desaturation

Indexed keywords

APNEA; ARTICLE; BED; BRADYCARDIA; BREATHING PATTERN; CAR; CHILD SAFETY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAT; SLEEP STAGE;

APNEA; BEDS; BRADYCARDIA; CHILD RESTRAINT SYSTEMS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OXYGEN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION; TERM BIRTH;

EID: 70349237703     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-0160     Document Type: Article

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