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

fYear

2006

Firstpage

6049

Lastpage

6051

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1615871

Filename

1615871