Failure of apnea monitoring during bed-sharing.
We report the case of an infant found dead in bed with an adult while attached to a respiratory monitor sensor. We experimentally re-created a bed-sharing situation with an infant mannequin to demonstrate that a Graseby home apnea monitor continues to sense adult breathing and movement in the absence of infant breathing when used in this sleep situation.
Elder
Dawn E
DE
Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, P.O. Box 7343, Wellington, New Zealand. dawn.elder@otago.ac.nz
Larsen
Peter
P
Zuccollo
Jane M
JM
D000328:Adult; D001049:Apnea / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001513:Beds; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D008297:Male; D008348:Manikins; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013398:Sudden Infant Death / Q000517:prevention & control