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Epidemiology and Definition of Apnea Definition Apnea is an almost universal manifestation of immature respiratory control in premature infants. Such infants may experience respiratory pauses of varying duration, with decreasing gestational age increasing vulnerability to such events. Short respiratory pauses…
Acknowledgment This chapter was prepared through the financial support of grant HL 56470 (R.J. Martin and Y.S. Prakash), HL138402 (P.M. MacFarlane), and HL 133459 (T.M. Raffay) from the National Institutes of Health. Introduction Significant progress has been made in elucidating…