A modified STOP-Bang algorithm designed specifically to detect severe cases of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) does not seem to offer significant improvement over the questionnaire’s original approach, Belgian researchers have concluded. The investigators also found that the DES-OSA score is the best of the commonly used OSA scales when it comes to detecting severe OSA among surgical patients.
As Eric P. Deflandre, MD, PhD, reported, several clinical scoring systems have been proposed to