Length of Stay in Ambulatory Surgical Oncology Patients at High Risk for Sleep Apnea as Predicted by STOP-BANG Questionnaire

Length of Stay in Ambulatory Surgical Oncology Patients at High Risk for Sleep Apnea as Predicted by STOP-BANG Questionnaire

Background. The STOP-BANG questionnaire has been used to identify surgical patients at risk for undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) by classifying patients as low risk (LR) if STOP-BANG score < 3 or high risk (HR) if STOP-BANG score ≥ 3. Few studies have examined whether postoperative compl...

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Main Authors: Diwakar D. Balachandran, Saadia A. Faiz, Mike Hernandez, Alicia M. Kowalski, Lara Bashoura, Farzin Goravanchi, Sujith V. Cherian, Elizabeth Rebello, Spencer S. Kee, Katy E. French
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:Anesthesiology Research and Practice
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9425936

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9425936

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