Sleep Apnea Screening Cuts Surgical Complications
"Identifying patients who are at risk of having OSA in advance of surgery is important to improve patient safety. In addition, when anesthesiologists are forewarned of the severity of a patient's sleep apnea, they can select appropriate ... [... more]
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Nasal Surgery Helps Ease Sleep Apnea Symptoms
"The degrees of quality of life improvement, compared with the preoperative generic health status, were 30.4 percent for role-emotional (problems with work or daily activities caused by emotional difficulties), 20.7 percent for role-physical, ... [... more]
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Sharing Bed With Wife Helps Men's Sleep Apnea Rx
At the study's outset, all couples spent a night in the sleep lab so their sleep quality could be monitored by polysomnography. The husbands then began CPAP treatment. Over the next 2 weeks, the couples kept sleep logs documenting whether they ... [... more]
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