Abdominal muscles serve many roles; in addition to breathing, especially at higher levels of
chemical drive or at increased end-expiratory lung volumes, they are responsible for, or …

Our aim was to summarise the current evidence and methods used to assess respiratory
muscle function in the newborn, focusing on current and future potential clinical applications …

Awareness of the existence of CCHS has led to increasingly frequent reports of such
patients from all over the world. However, the exact pathophysiologic mechanisms …

The cardiorespiratory control system undergoes functional maturation after birth. Until this
process is completed, the cardiorespiratory system is unstable, placing infants at risk for …

This review will focus on the development of behavioural states and breathing during early
developmental stages prior to term gestation. Although these behavioural states are …

In newborns and infants a variety of respiratory disorders lead to ventilatory failure. In early
life the ventilatory response to loaded breathing is limited. The risk factors of ventilatory …

A number of physiological studies, published over the last 10 years, have investigated the
links between prone sleeping and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). This review …

Objective: We tested the hypothesis that healthy preterm infants have attenuated ventilatory
responses to hypercapnia, associated with a decreased rib cage contribution to ventilation …

Introduction: It has been suggested that infants dynamically regulate their tidal flow and end‐
expiratory volume level. The interaction between muscle activity, flow and lung volume in …

1 A putative endogenous excitatory drive to the respiratory system in rapid eye movement
(REM) sleep may explain many characteristics of breathing in that state, eg its irregularity …