Pulseoximetry: Sufficient to diagnose severe sleep apnea

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 133-138

  Oeverland, Britt ^a   Skatvedt, Olav ^a   Kvarner, Kari J ^a   Akre, Harriet ^a  

^a ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Hypopnea; Polysomnography; Screening; Sleep related breathing disorders

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING DISORDER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORWAY; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; OXYGEN SATURATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE OXIMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDER; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 0036218467     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-9457(01)00122-8     Document Type: Article

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