title: Perioperative issues and sleep-disordered breathing.
abstract: Sleep-disordered breathing in the perioperative setting poses an increase in both perceived and demonstrated challenges for health care providers. Some of these challenges relate to identifying patients at high risk for obstructive sleep apnea prior to surgery. Other management challenges include identifying the proper monitoring techniques, using the correct mix of pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic strategies to manage these patients, and identifying the proper and safe disposition strategy after surgery. Additional populations, such as pediatrics and the morbidly obese, are also highlighted, which may help address questions in populations that are frequently managed in the critical care setting postoperatively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, The Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. Electronic address: Karen.Wood@osumc.edu.
authors.forename: Karen L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Wood
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, The Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Beth Y
authors.initials: BY
authors.lastname: Besecker
mesh_terms: D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000175:diagnosis; D003422:Critical Care; D017558:Elective Surgical Procedures; D006801:Humans; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000601:surgery; D019990:Perioperative Care; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D020181:Sleep Apnea, Obstructive / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology
keywords: Anesthesia; Obstructive sleep apnea; Perioperative; Sleep-disordered breathing