Assessment and Treatment of Infant Sleep

• Section I: Developmental Milestones

• Normal physiological development of sleep

EEG

Circadian development

Homeostatic sleep pressure

Changes in pulmonary/respiratory physiology

Behavioral aspects of normative development

Progression of night wakings/sleep consolidation (behavioral components such as parent responses)

Parent-child interactions and synchrony in relation to sleep

Section II: Medical issues

SIDS

Health disparities

Relationship with BRUE/ALTE

Obstructive sleep apnea in infants

Risk factors in infants, populations at risk

Assessment, including polysomnography

Management of OSA, specific to infants

Medical therapy, including oxygen, high-flow systems, CPAP

Surgical treatment for OSA in specific infant populations

Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome and other disorders of ventilation

Evaluation and management during infancy

Impact of chronic disease or early birth complications on sleep in infancy

Infants with asthma, reflux, cystic fibrosis, and other medical diseases

Infants who have spent prolonged time in the NICU

Seizures during sleep and sleep-related movement disorders in infancy

Sleep-related rhythmic movement disorder, benign sleep myoclonus of infancy

Differentiating movement disorders from seizures during sleep

Section III: Behavioral issues (III):

Bedtime problems/night awakenings

Populations at risk

Management

Neurodevelopmental differences

Health disparities/cross-cultural differences