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Perioperative Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea

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Obstructive sleep apnea is the most common type of sleep-disordered breathing. This disease entity is also associated with multiple comorbidities and poses a risk of various perioperative and postoperative complications. Many patients with OSA present preoperatively undiagnosed; thus, it is important that these patients are identified via screening tools and optimized. In addition, there are various perioperative risk mitigation strategies for OSA patients in order to reduce the incidence of complications. This article provides a brief introduction of OSA, screening, diagnosis and risk stratification of high risk groups, as well as peri- and post-operative management of this vulnerable group of patients.

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Mak, K., Seet, E. (2014). Perioperative Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea. In: Khan, Z. (eds) Airway Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08578-4_8

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