Obstructive sleep apnea

sound. In addition to keeping their sleeping partner or the others around them up because of the loud sounds of snoring the person is making. Medically, it disturbs a person’s sleep patterns keeping them from getting a full night’s sleep and feeling fully rested when they wake up. When a person snores it may be a sign of a far more serious problem know as obstructive sleep apnea syndrome or (OSA). In the early 1970s some of the sleep disorder clinics started to use respiratory and cardiac sensors on a regular basis in all of their overnight sleep studies. This gave way to new possibilities for the way we study sleep and sleep disorders, and since then, the overnight diagnostic tests have become known as polysomnography. Polysomnography tests record many things like the brain activity, a person’s heart rate, in addition to breathing patterns, as well as movements of various parts of the human body. The use of polysomnography is now…

symptoms, it is possible you may be suffering from obstructive sleep apnea, or OSA. There are approximately 30 million Americans who are victims of OSA. It is important for anyone who has this problem, or knows someone they care about with it to have an understanding of this condition. So what is OSA? OSA is a condition in which an individual experiences recurrent episodes during sleep when their throat closes, and they cannot breath air into their lungs (apnea). What happens during sleep, is…

Introduction Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) basically means an individual losses the ability to breathe easily. OSA is could be considered a serious sleep disorder because of the stopping of breathing. OSA is constant and occurs multiple times while asleep. There are a multiple type of apnea but the most known disorder is OSA, which occurs when the throat muscles relax and hinders airways during sleep. OSA is usually caused because of a narrow and flaccid throat. In addition, most people who…

causes fatigue, which increases the possibility for vehicle accidents. Obstructive sleep apnea affects more than half the NYPD. Obstructive sleep apnea is a chronic disease that can be treated, with the use of a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine (Hoffstein et at., 1992). Treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnea proves useful. However, treatment with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is unclear (Hoffstein et at., 1992). The effect of obstructive sleep apnea as a cardiac…

”Obstructive sleep apnea is characterized by collapse or closure of the upper airway, resulting in cessation of airflow, despite persistent ventilatory effort.”8 Unlike many mammals, the hyoid bone in a human is not anchored to the skeleton, therefore, the pharynx has little support. The oropharynx is kept patent by skeletal muscles working together. It is for this reason that a collapse in the oral pharyngeal region can easily occur causing an upper airway obstruction.1 During sleep…

Obstructive Sleep Apnea is a condition where respiration stops for an extended period of time during sleep. This is generally caused by excessive relaxation of the soft tissues of the oropharynx and muscles of facial expression and mastication obstructing the airway. It has been theorized that the potentially life threatening Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS), directly and indirectly influences Periodontal disease. Literature Review Signs and symptoms of OSAS consist of snoring, abrupt…

A new study has shown that there are more than 4 million people who are likely to have sleep apnea due to being obese. Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder in which people have trouble staying in a deep sleep because their throats close, blocking their airway to the point where they stop breathing, causing them to wake up feeling like they're choking. A person who is obese and particularly heavier in the neck and upper body, has a strong effect on obstructive sleep apnea pathogenesis of narrowing the…

In a study of 95 children 38% of them showed evidence of obstructive sleep apnea and 29% required surgery to aid the issue. While the surgery generally rectified the issue, recurrent symptoms are very common (Sisk et al., 1999). Sleep apnea is often exacerbated by the growing problem of obesity within people with ACH, there is currently no standardized BMI chart for those with achondroplasia but there is an increasing problem with weight control in younger people with ACH particularly due to the…

What are the potential error for CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) versus oxygen in (OSA) obstructive sleep apnea? Most people with untreated OSA experience multiple episodes of hypoxemia sometimes more than hundred a night. Most patients declining CPAP treatment their doctor prescribe them oxygen for overnight use. This might help with ameliorate some risk of untreated sleep apnea. Some of the error that I notice was that that outcome measured on a continuous scale, the baseline…

Upon first meeting my client, “John Littlebear”, which is not his real name, but I will call him that due to patient privacy laws, I noticed that he had Tribal Insurance, which meant he was from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Browning, Montana. Therefore, I made sure I familiarized myself with the Blackfeet tribal customs before he arrived at the Sleep Center, ensuring I increased my cultural competency (Comstock et al., 2008). With this in mind, in order for social workers to effectively…