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Comparison of upper airway collapse during general anaesthesia and sleep
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Comparison of upper airway collapse during general anaesthesia and sleep

Peter R Eastwood, Irene Szollosi, Peter R Platt and David R Hillman
The Lancet (British edition), Vol.359(9313), pp.1207-1209
2002
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(02)08224-7
PMID: 11955541
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Abstract

Measurement of the collapsibility of the upper airway while a patient is awake is not a good guide to such collapsibility during sleep, presumably because of differences in respiratory drive, muscle tone, and sensitivity of reflexes. To assess whether a relation existed between general anaesthesia and sleep, we measured collapsibility of the upper airway during general anaesthesia and severity of sleep-disordered breathing in 25 people who were having minor surgery on their limbs. Anaesthetised patients who needed positive pressure to maintain airway patency had more severe sleep-disordered breathing than did those whose airways remained patent at or below atmospheric pressure. Such an association was strongest during rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep. Our findings suggest that sleep-disordered breathing should be considered in all patients with a pronounced tendency for upper airway obstruction during anaesthesia or during recovery from it.

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1 Clinical & Life Sciences
1.137 Sleep Science & Circadian Systems
1.137.382 Obstructive Sleep Apnea
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Physiology
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