Book Review
Sleep and breathing in infants and young children
IgorA Kelmanson. Published by Nova Biomedical Books, New York, 2006, £71.99 (hardback), pp 226. ISBN-1-60021-279-4
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The increasing interest and awareness of the importance of sleep in paediatrics and childhood development have been matched by the emergence of a series of books on sleep medicine in childhood and adolescence. Many such publications are multi-author works, so it is nice to see a single author book in this competitive market. However, as the title suggests, a major focus of the book is the relationship between sleep and breathing, which may reduce the breadth of its appeal. Nevertheless, the book is aimed at both a general paediatric audience as well as the slew of interested specialists who have gathered around this particular area of clinical interest.
The book is written primarily as a summary of the author’s clinical experience with reference to the relevant literature. The text therefore reads very much like a personal practice paper. The layout is logically ordered, initially covering the underlying physiology of sleep
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