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Understanding Your Sleep Study Results: RDI, Desaturation, and Sleep Architecture The report of sleep polysomnography (also known as the overnight laboratory sleep study) plays such an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders--especially sleep apnea--that every patient who undergoes one should request a copy. It will prove much more interesting and useful if the patient can read the report with some understanding; it should not be that difficult to learn what to make of it, at least in part. Moreover, it can help a lot in relaying information to other doctors who need to know more than just a diagnostic impression given to a patient in a brief discussion with a sleep specialist. understanding sleep study report • how to read sleep study result • apnea hypopnea index • respiratory distress index • oxygen desaturation
Postoperative Catastrophes with OSA Patients: Two Sad Accounts Obstructive Sleep Apnea presents special hazards after surgery, requiring adjustment of postoperative care, which often fails to take place. Two cases of mortality illustrate this point. apnea • surgery • osa • obstructive sleep apnea • postoperative |
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