Sleep· 7: Positive airway pressure therapy for obstructive sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome

P Gordon, MH Sanders - Thorax, 2005 - thorax.bmj.com
The use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) in treating symptoms associated
with OSAHS is reviewed. Although it is an imperfect intervention, it continues to evolve and …

Positive airway pressure therapy of OSA

M Hirshkowitz, A Sharafkhaneh - Seminars in Respiratory and …, 2005 - thieme-connect.com
Positive airway pressure is standard therapy for patients with obstructive sleep apnea. It
comes in three basic varieties:(1) continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP),(2) bilevel …

Randomized placebo-controlled crossover trial of continuous positive airway pressure for mild sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome

HM Engleman, RN Kingshott, PK Wraith… - American journal of …, 1999 - atsjournals.org
The minimal disease severity at which patients with the sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome
(SAHS) gain benefit from treatment is not well characterized, although a pilot study of …

Effect of CPAP therapy on daytime function in patients with mild sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome.

HM Engleman, SE Martin, IJ Deary, NJ Douglas - Thorax, 1997 - thorax.bmj.com
BACKGROUND: Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is an effective treatment in
patients with moderate and severe sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome (SAHS), but the …

Long-term treatment with continuous positive airway pressure improves quality of life in obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome

BM Sanner, J Klewer, A Trumm… - European …, 2000 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is an established treatment of obstructive sleep
apnoea syndrome (OSAS). While it is known that CPAP reverses the pathological breathing …

Central sleep apnea reversed by continuous positive airway pressure

V Hoffstein, AS Slutsky - American Review of Respiratory Disease, 1987 - atsjournals.org
Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is an accepted and highly effective method
used in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). We have explored the potential …

Treatment of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome with nasal continuous positive airway pressure

RD McEvoy, AT Thornton - Sleep, 1984 - academic.oup.com
To help define the place of nasal continuous positive airway pressure (n-CPAP) treatment in
a general sleep apnea population we studied 12 of 13 consecutively diagnosed patients …

Compliance with CPAP therapy in patients with the sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome.

HM Engleman, SE Martin, NJ Douglas - Thorax, 1994 - thorax.bmj.com
BACKGROUND--Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy is the treatment of
choice for the sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome. Compliance with this relatively obtrusive …

[HTML][HTML] The efficacy of nasal continuous positive airway pressure in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome is proven

RJO Davies, JR Stradling - … journal of respiratory and critical care …, 2000 - atsjournals.org
We have been asked to argue the case for nasal continuous positive airway pressure
therapy (nCPAP) in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), which is the …

Failure of CPAP therapy in obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: predictive factors and treatment with bilevel-positive airway pressure

H Schäfer, S Ewig, E Hasper, B Lüderitz - Respiratory medicine, 1998 - Elsevier
Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the most widely used therapy for obstructive
sleep apnoea (OSA). Despite its general efficacy, oxygen desaturation due to …