… Ways to improve patient compliance with CPAP include proper preoperative screening and
… costs of local or regional anesthesia versus general anesthesia in the outpatient setting. …

… In the perioperative setting, PAP therapies are important tools for the management of OSA
and sleep hypoventilation and special considerations apply to their implementation both in …

… For those with previously undiagnosed but suspected OSA in the postoperative or medical
inpatient setting, our institution has developed an obstructive apnea systematic intervention …

… Perioperative care of patients with obstructive sleep apnea undergoing upper airway surgery:
a review and consensus recommendations. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2019;145:…

… As such, there is some evidence in supporting the perioperative usage of CPAP. Furthermore,
postoperative oxygen therapy in the PACU may be particularly beneficial for patients with …

… A simple and evidence-based approach to smoking cessation in the perioperative setting is
the “Ask… and OUD, and sleep apnea have implications on the delivery of safe anesthesia and …

… tools, the STOP-BANG questionnaire has been particularly well validated in surgical and
sleep clinic populations and has, therefore, been most widely used in the preoperative setting. …

… of apnea or hypopnea episodes are observed per hour (apnea … respiratory arrest in an
unmonitored setting and difficult airway … CPAP had fewer and less severe perioperative complica- …

… settings may not be accessible to some patients due to distance and/or wait times. Finally, we
use a Perioperative … the Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care Service, which streamlines …

… perioperative management (Box 1). Severity of OSA, a predictor of perioperative complication,
is defined by the apnea… management of patients with obstructive sleep apnea: an updated …