[Reliability of home monitoring with event-recording compared with polysomnography in infants].

Aim Of The Study: Although reliable recognition of hypoxemia, apnea, bradycardia and tachycardia is absolutely necessary for home monitoring, many commercially available home monitors have not been sufficiently tested for their sensitivity. The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability of the home monitor VitaGuard 3000 by comparing it with the manual evaluation of full polysomnography (polysomnographic system Alice 3).

Patient And Methods: 20 infants (11 males; 9 females) aged between 5 and 40 weeks (12.