The effects of flight and altitude

MP Samuels - Archives of disease in childhood, 2004 - adc.bmj.com
Increasing numbers of infants and children journey by aeroplane, or travel to high altitude
destinations, for example, on holiday or as part of a population migration. Most are healthy …

Covert video recordings of life-threatening child abuse: lessons for child protection

DP Southall, MCB Plunkett, MW Banks, AF Falkov… - …, 1997 - publications.aap.org
Objective. To describe historic markers and clinical observations of life-threatening child
abuse as diagnosed using covert video surveillance (CVS). Design. A descriptive …

BTS guidelines for home oxygen in children

IM Balfour-Lynn, DJ Field, P Gringras, B Hicks… - Thorax, 2009 - thorax.bmj.com
Accepted 8 April 2009 ''… as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know
we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some …

Sleep related upper airway obstruction in a cohort with Down's syndrome.

VA Stebbens, J Dennis, MP Samuels… - Archives of disease in …, 1991 - adc.bmj.com
The prevalence of sleep related upper airway obstruction (UAO) was studied in a cohort of
34 children with Down's syndrome from a geographically defined area. Thirty two (94%) of …

The relationship between bradycardia, apnea, and hypoxemia in preterm infants

CF Poets, VA Stebbens, MP Samuels, DP Southall - Pediatric research, 1993 - nature.com
The pathogenesis of bradycardias in preterm infants is poorly understood. Because their
pathogenesis may involve both apnea and hypoxemia, we set out to analyze the proportion …

Epidemiology and pathophysiology of apnoea of prematurity

CF Poets, MP Samuels, DP Southall - Neonatology, 1994 - karger.com
In preterm infants, reliance on the detection of apnoeic pauses and/or bradycardia results in
significant amounts of hypoxaemia remaining undetected. In addition, recordings of …

Sleep related upper airway obstruction and hypoxaemia in sickle cell disease.

MP Samuels, VA Stebbens, SC Davies… - Archives of Disease in …, 1992 - adc.bmj.com
A cohort of 53 patients (age range 1.9-16.5 years) with sickle cell disease (49 homozygous
SS and four S beta zero-thalassaemia) was studied for evidence of sleep related upper …

How to distinguish between neglect and deprivational abuse

MH Golden, MP Samuels, DP Southall - Archives of disease in …, 2003 - adc.bmj.com
Neglect is a major cause of inadequate childcare in all societies and should be differentiated
from abuse.“Neglect” is defined here, as the “neglectful” failure to supply the needs of the …

Oxygen saturation and breathing patterns in children

CF Poets, VA Stebbens, MP Samuels, DP Southall - Pediatrics, 1993 - publications.aap.org
Objective. To obtain information on breathing patterns and oxygenation in children. Design.
Overnight tape recordings of arterial oxygen saturation (Sao2 Nellcor N200 in beat-to-beat …

Epileptic seizure-induced hypoxemia in infants with apparent life-threatening events

J Hewertson, MP Samuels, DP Southall, CF Poets… - …, 1994 - publications.aap.org
Objective. To describe the physiologic changes that occur during epileptic seizure (ES)-
induced apparent life-threatening events (ALTE) and to provide an explanation for the …