One night's CPAP withdrawal in otherwise compliant OSA patients: Marked driving impairment but good awareness of increased sleepiness

Sleep and Breathing

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 865-871

  Filtness, Ashleigh J ^a,b   Reyner, Louise A ^a   Horne, James A ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

CPAP; CPAP withdrawal; Driving performance; EEG; Obstructive sleep apnoea; Subjective sleepiness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BETA RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRIVING ABILITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SOMNOLENCE;

AGED; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; AWARENESS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 84867582055     PISSN: 15209512     EISSN: 15221709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11325-011-0588-8     Document Type: Article

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