Dickens, breath-holding, and The Hospital for Sick Children

Electrocardiography Parameters’ Changes in Epilepsy and Breath- holding children compared to Healthy Children

Background: Breath holding spells (BHS) are paroxysmal events with apnea and postural tone with Electrocardiography (ECG) abnormality and epilepsy status reports. The study aimed to compare the ECG parameters’ in epilepsy and breath-holding children compared with healthy children. Materials and Methods: </st...

The Belfast Hospital for Sick Children

THE staff of the Belfast Hospital for Sick Children for many years have been working under the most difficult and trying conditions. The hospital was built over half a century ago, and had become pitifully antiquated; the out-patient department was so congested that satisfactory work had become a physical impossibility, while the old equipment and long-since-obsolete type of operating-theatres ...

The Hospital for Sick Children Toronto

Iron supplementation for breath-holding attacks in children.

BACKGROUND Breath-holding attacks are common during childhood. Iron supplementation has been claimed to reduce the frequency or severity, or both, of breath-holding attacks in children. OBJECTIVES To assess the effect of iron supplementation on the frequency and severity of breath-holding attacks in children. SEARCH STRATEGY We searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CE...

The Evaluation of Electrocardiography Parameters Changes in Breath‐Holding Children Compared to Controls

Background Breath-holding spells (BHS) are brief periods when young children stop breathing for up to 1 minute and are widely recognized types of non-epileptic severe occasions in early stages of childhood. This study aimed to evaluate QTd and QTc changes in children with breath-holding spells compared with healthy children. <stron...