Key result
Infants who subsequently died of SIDS manifested alveolar hypoventilation during quiet sleep and abnormal ventilatory responses to carbon dioxide breathing compared to normal infants.
Why the study?
Do infants who subsequently die of sudden infant death syndrome manifest abnormal alveolar ventilation compared to normal infants?
Do infants who subsequently die of sudden infant death syndrome manifest abnormal alveolar ventilation compared to normal infants?
Infants who succumb to sudden infant death syndrome exhibit pre-existing physiological abnormalities in alveolar ventilation and carbon dioxide response during sleep.
Supports pre-SIDS ventilatory testing in select infants; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Infants who subsequently died of sudden infant death syndrome manifest alveolar hypoventilation during quiet sleep and abnormality of ventilatory response to carbon dioxide breathing in comparison to normal infants.
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Shannon et al. (1977) studied this question. Infants who subsequently died of SIDS manifested alveolar hypoventilation during quiet sleep and abnormal ventilatory responses to carbon dioxide breathing compared to normal infants.
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