ABSTRACT
Infant polysomnography (IPSG) holds great promise for the study of sleep and breathing disorders, the functional integrity of the developing brain and early cardiorespiratory functioning. For IPSG to be most useful, results from different studies need to be derived from comparable techniques in data acquisition and measurement1. Although guidelines and standards have been developed2-8, thereisno one source for IPSG applied to infants over time, starting with pre-terms and continuing past 6 months post-term. Polysomnography, or the simultaneous recording of multiple physiological variables during sleep, is considered the gold standard for recording sleep and sleep-related events. Clinicians and investigators, however, have different views on the duration, timing and content of physiological monitoring in infants. This Atlas offers one view by incorporating procedures for recording and scoring sleep and sleep-related events in this age group.
