During the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to establish the prevalence of sleep dysfunction
and psychological distress, identify predisposing and protective factors, and explore …

Abstract Treatment of OSA with CPAP is currently the recommended treatment and has the
greatest evidence of efficacy on AHI, symptoms and comorbidities. Symptomatic patients …

Background The capacity to diagnose obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) must be expanded to
meet an estimated disease burden of nearly one billion people worldwide. Validated …

For more than three decades, type III devices have been used in the diagnosis of sleep
disordered breathing in supervised as well as unsupervised settings. They have satisfactory …

A pandemic is described as a state where a disease evolves quickly, affects a significant
proportion of the population, and usually spreads across geographic boundaries to involve …

Sleep medicine services have already undergone several disruptive changes related to new
diagnostic and treatment technologies for the management of obstructive sleep apnea …

Background Whether the COVID-19 pandemic impacts Positive Airway Pressure (PAP)
adherence over the long-term is unknown and only preliminary short-term data have been …

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the operation of health care systems. Resources have
been shifted from elective care to acute management of severely ill patients affected by life …

3. Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham COVID-19 Airway Team. Safety and 30-day
outcomes of tracheostomy for COVID-19: a prospective observational cohort st udy. Br J …

Purpose In COVID‐19 era, all forms of access of patients to the sleep units should be
reduced as much as possible when implementing telemedicine. In the field of obstructive …