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Protect apnea patients from perioperative risk

Quality Improvement Report, July 1, 2008

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For some reason, clinicians suffer from the misapprehension that patients recovering after surgery need to lie flat on their backs—a potentially dangerous position for those who have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Della Lin, MD, an anesthesiologist who has served on the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Patient Safety Committee and executive director of continuing medical education at Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, says she wants to disabuse her peers of that notion.

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