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Sleep Apnea Management and Diagnosis
Obstructive sleep apnea is one of the most serious and under-diagnosed medical problems in the U.K. affecting 6 million UK people. Nearly half of people with sleep apnea also suffer with one or more serious health condition that Doctors already manage, such as diabetes, hypertension or heart failure, each of which can be aggravated or caused by sleep apnea. Treating these conditions simultaneously can help achieve improved overall patient outcomes.
Managing sleep apnea patients within your practice starts with a Home Sleep Test. Contact the online sleep clinic and Learn more about how the online sleep clinic can enable medical practitioners to accurately and cost-effectively diagnose sleep apnea.

Risks of Untreated Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Untreated sleep apnea is associated with two times the risk of stroke, five times the risk of a fatal heart attack and, among patients with diabetes, 82 percent increased insulin resistance.
If patients are having difficulty managing serious health conditions like diabetes or hypertension, they may also suffer from undiagnosed sleep apnea.

The majority (80%) of undiagnosed sleep apnea sufferers have uncomplicated sleep apnea—that is, sleep apnea without neurological conditions or severe co-morbidities. Uncomplicated sleep apnea is a straightforward diagnosis and patients can be easily diagnosed with renting directly or encouraging your patient to rent home test equipment from the Online Sleep Clinic.

  • Diagnosing
    Sleep Apneas
  • Management Of
    Sleep Apneas
  • Perioperative
    & Bariatric Cpap
  • Sleep Apnea
    Articles Of Interest
  • Index of Sleep
    Disorders

Diagnosing Sleep Apneas

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Sleep Apnea:

Symptoms Causes Cures and Treatment Options

Most of us don’t think of snoring as something to be overly concerned about—unless our bed partner is disrupting our sleep! But frequent, loud snoring may be a sign of sleep apnea, a common and potentially serious disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts as you sleep. Learn how to identify sleep apnea and what you can do about it.
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NHS Choices:

Diagnosing Sleep Apnea

If you have symptoms of excessive daytime sleepiness, such as feeling drowsy, a lack of energy and poor memory, ask a partner, friend or relative to observe you while you are asleep. They may be able to spot episodes of breathlessness that could help to confirm a diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA).
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How Is Sleep Apnea Diagnosed?

Doctors diagnose sleep apnea based on medical and family histories, a physical exam, and results from sleep studies. Usually, your primary care doctor evaluates your symptoms first. He or she then decides whether you need to see a sleep specialist.
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Video:
How to diagnose Sleep Disorders Obstructive Sleep Apnea Treatment:

Obstructive sleep apnea can be very difficult for an individual's well-being if it's not treated properly. Learn some tips for assessing and treating obstructive sleep apnea from our medical expert in this free video.

How to Diagnose Sleep Disorders:
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Online Sleep Disorders Guide:

A common disorders guide to sleeping problems
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Home Diagnosis of Sleep Apnea: A Systematic Review of the Literature:

An Evidence Review Cosponsored by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the American Thoracic Society

Sleep apnea is a common disorder that affects both children and adults. It is characterized by periods of breathing cessation (apnea) and periods of reduced breathing (hypopnea). Both types of events have similar pathophysiology and are generally considered to be equal with respect to their impact on patients.....
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults:

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a relatively common disorder in the United States that affects people of all ages, but is most prevalent among the middle-aged and elderly.

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How Is Sleep Apnea Treated?

Lifestyle changes, mouthpieces, breathing devices, and surgery are used to treat sleep apnea. Medicines typically aren't used to treat the condition.

The goals of treating sleep apnea are to: Restore regular breathing during sleep and Relieve symptoms such as loud snoring and daytime sleepiness.

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How To Manage Sleep Apnea

For those who can use it, PAP (positive airway pressure) therapy is the best fix. Continuous, or CPAP, is a common type. Apnea is a form of sleep disordered breathing (SDB), which causes the airway to collapse partially or fully; pressure (applied through a mask) keeps the airway open.

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Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Primary Care

Obstructive sleep apnea should be suspected in patients who are overweight, snore loudly, and have chronic daytime sleepiness.

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How Can I Manage sleep Apnea?

Many people have sleep apnea and don’t know it. Signs to look for include snoring, which indicates that you may experience further airway collapse. You may also experience anxiety, stress, depression, or acid reflux or indigestion, since apnea causes chest pressure that pulls acid out of the stomach.

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Sleep Apnea - Treatment?

Lifestyle changes

Mild cases of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) can usually be treated by making lifestyle changes, such as: losing weight (if you are overweight or obese), stopping smoking (if you smoke), limiting your alcohol consumption.

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Managing Sleep Apnea without a Cpap Machine

Sleep apnea is one of the most common sleep disturbance problems in America. It ruins the sleep of an estimated 25 million Americans on a regular basis. The condition prevents the sleeper from entering REM and Delta sleep causing them to become anxious, cantankerous and tired during the day. There are very serious health consequences of prolonged sleep deprivation




Perioperative and Bariatric Cpap___________________________________________________________________


Sleep Apnea and Daytime Sleepiness and Fatigue:

Relation to Visceral Obesity, Insulin Resistance, and Hypercytokinemia

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Obesity and Sleep:

The statistics are alarming: About 65% of Americans are now overweight or obese.

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Anaesthesia and the Sleep Apnoea Sufferer:

Some thoughts for people with sleep apnoea who are preparing for surgery

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Anesthesia and the apnea patient:

How can anesthesia impact a person with sleep apnea?

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Perioperative management of adult patients:

With OSA or at high risk for OSA undergoing elective, non-upper airway surgery.
(Schematic)

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Early Sleep Apnea Detection and Treatment in Stroke Rehabilitation:

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) occurs when mechanisms that maintain pharyngeal patency during sleep are dysfunctional, resulting in narrowing or collapse of the upper airway. Most studies support the hypothesis of an association between OSA and vascular disease.

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International Society for the Perioperative Care of the Obese Patient:

Are you challenged when dealing with your obese patients? If you are, you might want to join this society and learn something;

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Weighing In on Surgical Safety

Identifing the comorbidites associated with obesity that place patients at higher risk for surgical
complications.

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Peri-Operative Management of The Morbidly Obese Patient

All trained anaesthetists should be competent in the management of morbidly
obese patients and familiar with the equipment and protocols in the hospitals
in which they work.

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Practice Guidelines for the Perioperative Management of
Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea

A Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on
Perioperative Management of Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea.


 

Sleep Apnea Articles Of Interest
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The New Face of Sleep

As Patients Balk at Bulky Masks, New Efforts to Treat Sleep Apnea

For the 18 million people with obstructive sleep apnea, the remedy is far from perfect: bulky and expensive masks that some compare to sleeping in scuba gear...
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Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Reduces Postprandial Lipidemia
in Obstructive Sleep Apnea

A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Crossover Trial

Rationale: Dyslipidemia is common in Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). Postprandial lipidemia (PPL) is a strong marker of cardiovascular risk. Evidence that OSA treatment improves PPL is lacking...
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The Effect of CPAP Treatment

SUMMARY: Traditional therapy for obstructive sleep apnea includes nightly use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and it has been the most common form of therapy for sleep apnea since 1981...
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The Obesity-Hypoventilation Syndrome

Tility have been shown to occur frequently and can be abolished with treatment.

Life-threatening arrhythmias occurring during obstructive apneas have been noted in these patients during sleep. Although tachyarrhythmias, including ventricular tachycardia, occur, severe cyclic bradyarrhythmias appear to be more common....
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Cpap The Push For Rapid Relief: Introducing the Flow-Safe CPAP System

The first disposable Latex-Free CPAP System for Acute Pulmonary Edema with built-in Safety Features for less. Built in manometer, built in pressure relief valve, titratable CPAP pressure, hightly portable and easy set-up....
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Sleep-Disordered Breathing and CPAP Overview of
Sleep-Disordered Breathing

Upper airway obstruction occurring during sleep that is, sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) was first demonstrated in the 1960s.

SDB represents a group of physiopathologic conditions that are characterized by an abnormal respiratory pattern during sleep that can be isolated or can coexist with other respiratory, nervous, cardiovascular, or endocrine diseases....


Index of Sleep Disorders

Since its introduction in 1990, the International Classification of Sleep Disorders (ICSD) has gained wide acceptance as a tool for clinical practice and research in sleep disorders medicine. The years between 1990 and 1997 have witnessed wide-ranging changes in sleep disorders medicine from many perspectives:the growth of managed health care; public health care reform; efforts to better integrate sleep disorders medicine into the community of medical specialties; major efforts at improving public awareness of the serious toll of sleep disorders; and–perhaps most importantly–a rapid growth in our understanding of the pathophysiology and effective treatment of sleep disorders.

Link To : American Academy of Sleep Medicine

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THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF
SLEEP DISORDERS, REVISED
Diagnostic and Coding Manual

 

 

 

 

 

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