Karen Posner, PhD
San Francisco—If there’s one clear message from a preliminary analysis of the Obstructive Sleep Apnea Death and Near Miss Registry, it’s this: Monitoring matters.
The data showed that effective monitoring solutions for the ward and home could reduce the significant perioperative adverse outcomes associated with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), including severe brain damage and even death.
“OSA in the perioperative period is an important clinical