PEDIATRICS Vol. 78 No. 5 November 1986, pp. 787-796
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Cardiorespiratory Function in 16 Full-Term Infants With Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

D. P. Southall MD, MRCP1, J. M. Richards BSc1, V. Stebbens BSc1, A. J. Wilson PhD1, V. Taylor BA1, and J. R. Alexander MSc, FSS, MIS1

1 From the Department of Pediatrics, Cardiothoracic Institute, London; the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Sciences, Thames Polytechnic, London; and the Department of Medical Physics, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, England

Twenty-four-hour tape recordings of ECG and breathing movements from 16 term infants (ge37 weeks' gestation) who subsequently died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) were compared with recordings from surviving infants from the same populations. Apneic pauses of varying durations, periodic and regular breathing patterns, heart and respiratory rates during regular breathing were measured. Only one of 16 full-term infants with SIDS had findings outside the range of age-matched control infants (an excess of periodic breathing patterns and an absence of regular breathing). When the first recordings of each of infants who died of SIDS, except one who had cyanotic episodes prior to death, were compared to recordings of survivors (six for each case) closely matched for age, gestation, and weight at birth, no differences in breathing patterns or heart or respiratory rates during regular breathing could be demonstrated. These particular measurements of cardiorespiratory function were, therefore, unable to identify the majority of full-term infants at risk for SIDS.

Key Words: cardiorespiratory function • breathing • heart rate • sudden infant death syndrome

Accepted on June 10, 1986




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