Increased incidence of pediatric narcolepsy following the 2009 H1N1 pandemic: a report from the pediatric working group of the sleep research network.

This study was aimed to evaluate the yearly incidence of pediatric narcolepsy prior to and following the 2009 H1N1 pandemic and to evaluate seasonal patterns of narcolepsy onset and associations with H1N1 influenza infection in the United States. This was a multicenter retrospective study with prospective follow-up. Participants were recruited from members of the Pediatric Working Group of the Sleep Research Network including 22 sites across the United States.

Night of Kentucky blues: the case of the hypoxic child in the sleep laboratory.

Citation: Sleep-disordered breathing is an increasingly identified condition in the pediatric population, resulting in an increasing number of direct-to-lab referrals for polysomnography (PSG). We present a unique case of a pediatric patient who demonstrated continuous hypoxemia during PSG. A 6-year-old Black female presented for PSG via direct referral with obstructive sleep apnea as a concern.

Synchrotron infrared reflectance microspectroscopy study of film formation and breakdown on copper.

This work demonstrates the utility of synchrotron infrared reflectance microspectroscopy in the far- and mid-IR for the determination of the composition of electrogenerated surface films formed during the general and localized corrosion of copper in alkaline and bicarbonate solutions. Back-reflection geometry has been employed to identify the anodic film formed on copper in 0.1 M NaOH solution at 0.

In situ synchrotron far-infrared spectromicroscopy of a copper electrode at grazing incidence angle.

Synchrotron far-infrared spectroscopy in situ was successfully carried out on a copper microelectrode using a grazing-angle objective attached to a Bruker IRscope II microscope. The thin-layer spectroelectrochemical cell was constructed out of Teflon and fitted with a 20 microm-thick Mylar window; the copper electrode was 500 microm in diameter. Measurements were carried out in 0.