… Sleep Medicine guideline on preoperative screening and assessment of adult patients with
obstructive sleep apnea (… Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a serious condition characterized …

… based on preoperative polysomnography (… preoperative patients should, at a minimum,
be screened using the STOP or STOP-Bang questionnaire. Primary care physicians screening …

… This study revealed that there may be no clinical relevance of routine preoperative
screening for undiagnosed OSA in all morbidly obese patients. To do this, we retrospectively …

… While OSA screening in asymptomatic patients in primary … and Sleep Medicine support
this screening preoperatively as an … the OSA diagnosis via screening without the current gold …

… Thus, preoperative identification of patients with OSA may … been widely used as preoperative
screening tools to identify … (3) patients underwent preoperative screening for OSA risk using …

… preoperative screening can be helpful for identifying high-risk patients. Implementing
evidence-based screening for obstructive sleep apnea … from the preoperative assessment through …

… Therefore, anesthesiologists are in need of a practical preoperative screening tool to identify
patients more likely to have true OSA. For safety reasons, the screening tool should have a …

… sleep apnea (OSA) is caused by repetitive partial or complete obstruction of the upper airway,
characterized by episodes of breathing cessation during sleep, … obstructive sleep apnea …

… reasonable to include the preoperative identification of OSA as part of our practice. The …
Cost-effectiveness analysis of preoperative screening strategies for obstructive sleep apnea …

… -term implications of preoperative screening for OSA. The importance of OSA screening
in … complications, current OSA screening methods, OSA screening in pregnancy, obesity …