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Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am · Dec 2014
ReviewImplications and interventions related to obstructive sleep apnea.
- Amy Veenstra and Emylene Untalan.
- Nursing Administration, Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, 3500 Gaston Avenue, Dallas, TX 75246, USA. Electronic address: amyv@baylorhealth.edu.
- Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am. 2014 Dec 1; 26 (4): 499-509.
AbstractSurgical patients with known or unknown obstructive sleep apnea are at increased risk for postoperative complications. By implementing evidence-based practices and a validated screening tool, the postoperative surgical patients at the authors' hospital have a decreased risk of postoperative complications, specifically oversedation. This article discusses the pathophysiology, prevalence, risk factors, care of the postsurgical patient, and use of the validated STOP-Bang questionnaire with obstructive sleep apnea as the focus.Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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