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- Diken Özlem Erçen ÖE Department of Chest Diseases, Hitit University School of Medicine, Çorum, Turkey. oercen@hotmail.com., Adem İlkay Diken, Adnan Yalçınkaya, Banu Gülbay, Turan Acıcan, Emre Demir, Sertan Özyalçın, and Mehmet Emir Erol.
- Department of Chest Diseases, Hitit University School of Medicine, Çorum, Turkey. oercen@hotmail.com.
- Respir Care. 2018 Oct 1; 63 (10): 1264-1270.
BackgroundThe time and conditions may not be suitable for performing polysomnography (PSG) before urgent or emergent surgeries, for example, a coronary artery bypass graft. Unavailability in many centers, critical clinical situation, and inability to arrange a timely scheduled appointment are other limitations for PSG. In this study, we aimed to investigate if the STOP-BANG Questionnaire may predict obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) related postoperative pulmonary alterations during coronary artery surgery.MethodsSixty-one subjects who were scheduled to undergo elective isolated coronary artery bypass graft surgery and were consulted for preoperative pulmonary assessment were recruited to the study. The STOP-BANG Questionnaire was used with the subjects; then their relationship with postoperative complications was assessed.ResultsResults of the STOP-BANG Questionnaire revealed that 36.1% of subjects were at high risk for OSAS. Three groups were established according to the STOP-BANG Questionnaire (low risk, group 1; moderate risk, group 2; high risk, group 3) and study parameters, including PEEP value in ventilator, detection of apnea at ventilator, CPAP time after extubation, SpO2 1 h after extubation, postoperative hypoxemia, need for CPAP, and ICU length of stay revealed significant relationships among these groups.ConclusionsThe STOP-BANG Questionnaire may predict the OSAS risk and OSAS-related pulmonary complications for patients who are candidates for a coronary artery bypass graft and unable to be evaluated with PSG before surgery due to technical or time-related limitations.Copyright © 2018 by Daedalus Enterprises.
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