Relationship between the Clinical Characteristics and Intervention Scores of Infants with Apparent Life-threatening Events

Choi, Hee Joung; Kim, Yeo Hyang

In this study, we analyzed the relationship between the patients' clinical characteristics and total significant intervention scores. We identified the following results: 1) ALTE occurring during sleep had a low incidence of significant interventions, 2) ALTE with a recent history of respiratory symptoms had a high incidence of significant intervention, and 3) patients with numerous signs of ALTE criteria had high scores of significant intervention (r = 0.330). Risk factors, such as prematurity, which had been described as poor prognosis factors in previous studies, did not show statistical significance in relation to the significant intervention scores. This result was somewhat different from previous studies, and we thought that it was caused by the difference of underlying diagnosis of ALTE. In our study, the most common ALTE cause was respiratory disease (44.8%), and these patients may show the more symptoms while awake.