The importance of screening for obstructive sleep apnea before surgery

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 270-271

  Yegneswaran, Balaji ^a   Chung, Frances ^b  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; NALOXONE;

HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; OBESITY; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESPIRATORY ARREST; RESUSCITATION; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; WRIST FRACTURE;

AGED; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; MORPHINE; NARCOTICS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 61349193238     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2008.02.009     Document Type: Letter

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