Title :
An Apparatus and Method to Characterize Causes of Positional Plagiocephaly
Author :
Manwaring, P. ; Packard, A. ; Manwaring, J. ; Manwaring, K. ; Beals, S. ; Littlefield, T. ; Manwaring, M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT
Abstract :
Positional plagiocephaly (misshapen head in infants) has increased dramatically in the United States since the beginning of the Back to Sleep program in 1992. In order to understand the increase due to repositioning from prone to supine position for sleep, we developed a home-based monitoring system to discern state of sleep and re-positioning frequency in infants. The portable system allows real-time logging of sleep position and patterns by a simplified sleep algorithm and association of sleep head position and movement which are time-stamped for correlation. Preliminary correlatory results suggest that plagiocephalic infants experience greater periods of rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep than controls and show more narrow range of motion during sleep
Keywords :
biomechanics; biomedical equipment; electroencephalography; paediatrics; patient monitoring; sleep; REM; home-based monitoring system; infants; misshapen head; positional plagiocephaly; prone position; rapid-eye-movement sleep; repositioning frequency; simplified sleep algorithm; sleep head position; sleep patterns; sleep position; supine position; Back; Charge coupled devices; Charge-coupled image sensors; Cranial; Electroencephalography; Frequency; Head; Monitoring; Pediatrics; Skull;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8741-4
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1615871
