TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Apparent Life-Threatening Event, Infant Apnea, and Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome A1 - DeWolfe, Craig C. A1 - Statile, Angela M. A1 - Chidekel, Aaron S. A2 - Zaoutis, Lisa B. A2 - Chiang, Vincent W. PY - 2017 T2 - Comprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine, 2e AB - Infants are often brought for urgent or emergent medical assessment owing to abnormal breathing patterns or worrisome respiratory episodes. Often the episode resolves before the patient arrives for initial evaluation and does not recur. However, some infants with respiratory episodes have significant underlying medical conditions or even life-threatening events. Many infants with both types of episodes are hospitalized for monitoring, diagnostic testing, and management despite a stable appearance at presentation, while others are able to be managed as outpatients. There is wide variation in the evaluation and management of these episodes. This chapter addresses presentations suggestive of apparent life-threatening events (ALTEs) and briefly discusses central apnea of neonates and young infants. It also examines pediatric obstructive sleep apnea. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146121850 ER -