Sleep apnea: Is routine preoperative screening necessary?

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 287-291

  Nepomnayshy, Dmitry ^a   Hesham, Walid ^a   Erickson, Brandon ^a   MacDonald, Julie ^a   Iorio, Richard ^a   Brams, David ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bariatric; Complications; OSA; Sleep apnea

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; SCREENING TEST; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; GASTROPLASTY; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 84878863065     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: 17080428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-012-0806-x     Document Type: Article

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