Here are five insights:
1. The questionnaire provides five questions that help to identify sleep-disordered breathing prior to surgery.
2. The questionnaire can be included in the pre-anesthesia interview.
3. Identifying the risk of identify sleep-disordered breathing is very important.
4. The likelihood of developing a perioperative respiratory adverse event increases three-fold in the presence of any three sleep-disordered breathing symptoms.
5. The likelihood increases by 10-fold when all five symptoms are present.
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