Collaborative Home Infant Monitoring Evaluation

Infants were enrolled into four groups: healthy term, preterm infants <1750g w/o significant morbidity, sibling of SIDS, and babies experiencing apparent life-threatening events. Objectives were to: determine monitor efficacy in identifying episodes endangering the infant's health; determine conditions optimizing use of apnea monitors in high risk infants; correlate physiological markers with the propensity for life-threatening events; and report on maturation of heart and respiratory function in sleeping infants. Data were collected from nightly home recordings (via CHIME Monitor device) and one sleep lab polysomnography (PSG) session (via CHIME Monitor and ALICE3 devices). CRF data include sociodemographic and medical information on mother and infant at entry and from scheduled medical follow-up visits through 1-year of age, weekly phone calls, monitor knowledge and satisfaction scales, periodic assessments with the Bayley II, NCAST, subscales of the Parenting Stress Index, and hospitalizations.