Should everyone be monitored for upper-air way resistance and how?

Sleep

Volumn 19, Issue 10 SUPPL., 1996, Pages

  Guilleminault, Christian ^a   Kushida, Clete ^a   Stoohs, Riccardo ^a   Ohayon, Maurice ^a   Wilson, Kenneth ^a   Clerk, Alex ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic; Expert system; Morphometric model; Polygraphie recording; Upper airway sleep disordered breathing

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; HUMAN; LABORATORY; PATIENT MONITORING; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP DISORDER; SNORING; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; BODY MASS INDEX; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; SNORING;

EID: 0030424485     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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