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How Successful is Surgery for Children With Sleep Apnea?
For many years the first line of defense for children with sleep apnea and other forms of sleep-disordered breathing has been to remove both their tonsils and adenoids in a procedure known as an adenoidtonsilectomy and follow-up studies normally carried out about six weeks and three months after surgery generally show positive results. However,... »
Should We Have General Sleep Apnea Screening for All Surgical Patients?
People who suffer from obstructive sleep apnea (experiencing repeated cessation of breathing during sleep) are at greater risk from surgery. For example, it is well known that surgical patients with obstructive sleep apnea often present difficulties with intubation in advance of surgery, run a higher risk of complications during and particularly after surgery, more... »
Sleep Apnea Machines – Equipment To Let You Sleep Easier
Did you know there are approximately 18 million Americans that have sleep apnea? The statistics are staggering if you consider that 1 in 15 people in the U.S. are suffering from this problem every night. Many people suffer from sleep apnea for various reasons. For the person suffering from this disorder, there has to... »
Sleep Apnea Study – May Be Your Most Important Night Of Sleep!
People who do not sleep well and awaken from sleep with sore throats and feeling as if they have not slept at all during the night, may be suffering from sleep apnea. Others suffer so much from lack of sleep that they fall asleep at totally inopportune moments such as in meetings, in movies,... »
Child Sleep Apnea Might Result in Noticeably Lowered Iq Scores
Though it has been known for some time that children who have sleep apnea often produce low scores on IQ tests (typically scoring about 85 against a score of 101 for children without sleep apnea) what we have not known until recently is that this results from chemical changes taking place in the brain.... »
