obstructive sleep apnea
Significantly Greater Risk for Unplanned Admission in Surgery Patients With OSA
Ambulatory surgery patients with obstructive sleep apnea have a significantly higher risk of being admitted to the ...
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Avoiding the Perils of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
OSA has emerged as a serious anesthesia safety dilemma because it often causes postoperative respiratory arrest and ...
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Public Education Critical in Addressing, Combating Deadly OSA Risks
We take care of patients who have developed life-threatening and life-altering complications due to an unrecognized ...
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Researchers Evaluate Practice Guidelines for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Management
It’s a situation of good and bad news when it comes to the state of current guidelines for the treatment of ...
MARCH 22, 2023
Apnea and Opioids a Dangerous Mix in Acute Heart Failure
Many patients admitted to the hospital with acute heart failure have previously undiagnosed sleep-disordered ...
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
Scoring Systems to Detect Severe OSA Compared
A modified STOP-Bang algorithm designed specifically to detect severe cases of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) does ...
AUGUST 22, 2019
Multimodal Approach for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Reduced Post-op Opioids and Complications
New York—In orthopedic surgery patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), multimodal analgesia may ...
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
Three Diseases Linked To Opioid-Induced Respiratory Depression
Chicago—Existing cardiac disease, pulmonary disease and obstructive sleep apnea are all significantly ...
AUGUST 6, 2018
Periprocedural Oxygenation of Obese Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients In and Out of the Operating Room
As anesthesia is increasingly provided in non-OR settings, comorbidities like obesity compound the risks. ...
AUGUST 30, 2017
Study: CPAP for Sleep Apnea Does Not Reduce Pain Intensity, Opioid Dependence
Continuous positive airway pressure treatment neither reduces pain intensity nor consumption of opioids in veterans ...
MARCH 28, 2017
Phenotypes of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Described
As dangerous as obstructive sleep apnea may be to surgical patients, an increasing number of screening tools are ...
OCTOBER 28, 2016
Screening Tools for Sleep Apnea Less Accurate in Women Who Are Pregnant
There is a growing body of literature demonstrating that obstructive sleep apnea is directly linked to an increase ...
OCTOBER 19, 2016