Effect of Sleep Position on Apnea and Bradycardia in High-Risk Infants

Abstract

Clinicians need to be cautious when recommending the side or prone position in this group of high-risk infants. The results in this investigation provide support for the Back to Sleep Campaign recommendations to be applied, not only to healthy term infants, but higher risk infants as well. Studies of the high-risk infant in the supine position are warranted.

The effect of sleep position on dream experiences.

“…They did not study the dream characteristics of subjects with other sleep positions. Including sleepers who lie flat on their back or lie face down on the stomach, however, appears to be necessary for the investigation of the relationship between sleep position and dreaming because supine and prone positions can increase the risk for sleep paralysis (Cheyne, 2002; Dahmen & Kasten, 2001; Fukuda, Ogilvie, Chilcott, Vendittelli, & Takeuchi, 1998) and sleep apnea (Athanasakis, Karavasiliadou, & Styliadis, 2011; Bhat et al, 2006; Cartwright, 1984; Hershberger, Peeke, Levett, & Spear, 2001; Kim, Dhong, Lee, Chung, & Jung, 2011; Nakano, Ikeda, Hayashi, Ohshima, & Onizuka, 2003), both of which can be incorporated into persecutory dream images.…”