How to protect sleep apnea patients from complications
Ambulatory Quality and Compliance Insider, June 1, 2008
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Ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) that want to keep sleep apnea patients safe—and prevent their schedules from running awry—should identify potential victims as soon as possible.
“You would be amazed on a daily basis at how many people are wheeled into the operating room who have unrecognized obstructive sleep apnea [OSA],” says Gerald A. Maccioli, MD, FCCM, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) director for North Carolina, director of critical care medicine at Critical Health Systems of North Carolina’s Raleigh Practice Center, and president of the American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists. “I continue to be surprised at how often we’re the first physicians to tell someone they have that diagnosis.”
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