Sleep apnea

Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a respiratory sleeping disorder caused by the collapse of the pharyngeal that disrupt one’s sleep; causing daytime sleepiness, nighttime awakenings, snoring, choking, etc. [1] It is one of the most common sleep disorder that affects around 5% of middle aged subjects. [2] Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment is one of the most chosen treatment by patients with OSA because it is the most effective and simple to use treatment with low risks. CPAP…

Critique of Evidence In review of, Continuous Positive Airway Pressure as Treatment for Systemic Hypertension in People With Obstructive Sleep Apnoea: Randomised Controlled Trial, (Duran-Cantolla et al. 2010), one strength included the study design; this was a randomized controlled trial. Other strengths consist of sample size, and the diagnosis of sleep apnea was conducted by the same method. In addition, the patients were newly diagnosed with hypertension, habitual snorers, and had not…

yet. I was diagnosed with sleep apnea and restless leg syndrome my freshmen year. I had no choice but to go through surgery in attempt to open my airways to improve breathing, which was unsuccessful. Due to lack of sleep and breathing, I had to carry out a sleep study. Spending the night at the hospital and responding to additional questions aided the sleep specialists in deciding what was wrong with me. The specialists came to the conclusion that I had sleep apnea and restless leg syndrome.…

Psychological Effects of Sleep Isaac Newton in his famous Newton’s Laws pointed out that for every action there must always be a reaction. This phenomenon manifests in all aspects of life. Everybody needs to sleep and the sleep must be sufficient. Insufficient sleep has a share of its effects. Basically, sleep is one of the many altered states of a human being’s consciousness. This implies that it directly has psychological implications and its insufficiency or excessiveness has direct impact…

Ballard, 2016) . Additionally , dementia carers will often experience greater burden than a carer of people with other chronic conditions (Gresham, Tsang, Heffernan, & Brodaty, 2014).Hence, Judith could experience carer’s burden which includes stress, sleep disturbances or depression rates of 15 percent to 32 percent (Müller et al., 2016; Nair, Mansfield, & Waller, 2016). Subsequently, carer burden results in reduced personal care and life…

My Discussion I have both experienced and witnessed tragedy as a result of acute sleep loss. The first was my college roommate; that was killed when he fell asleep at the wheel one weekend while trying to get back to class after driving all night. At the time I had no idea that I would also have a life changing event, by doing the same, falling asleep at the wheel. At present, I am not a shift worker. Do to my civilian career in commercial aviation as an Aircraft Maintenance Technician…

Obstructive rest apnea is a typical unending illness in Western culture whose commonness is evaluated at 2% of ladies and 4% of men in the overall public. It is portrayed basically by repetitive impediment of the upper aviation route that outcomes in oxyhemoglobin desaturation and occasional feelings of excitement from rest. It now creates the impression that even gentle to direct rest apnea is connected with the improvement of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular danger. With…

Sleep, it is the one thing that everyone wishes they would have gotten more of every single night when waking up early in the morning. The sad thing is though, we never actually get as much as we would like. We generally tend to put sleep off the most out of anything throughout our lives, mainly because it means it’s the end of our days. We’d tend to put on one of our favorite tv episodes or movies on, or play video games instead of sleeping. We do this simply because we’re humans. Unless we’ve…

regarding a person’s sleep schedule, there have been a multitude of high level examinations in order to make a validated conclusion about how sleep deprivation, or apnea, has an effect on a person’s attention-span and mood. However, these examinations have never properly been compared to another form of sleep complications which would be periodical night awakenings throughout the course of a person’s normal sleep. Due to this neglect of an experiment comparing the effects of sleep deprivation…

an occasional problem is not very serious. But in fact, those who have to listen to him, snoring is a hell and that may be a sign of a serious sleep disorder in the snorer. The things that the snorer should focus more on the environment are the dream and sleep position. Many people are not aware of this, but when it comes to the room that the snorer sleeps on, actually plays a significant role in the process. Yes, this is something that may come as a surprise to many people, as many of us are…