The study, titled “Perioperative Pulmonary Outcomes in Patients With Sleep Apena After Noncardiac Surgery,” looked at National Inpatient Sample data from 1998-2007 and compared patients with an SA diagnosis to those without the disease, based on demographic variables.
The study found that patients with SA developed pulmonary complications more frequently than their control counterparts after both orthopedic and general surgical procedures. Pulmonary embolism was more frequent in SA patients after orthopedic procedures but not after general surgical procedures.
Read the study published in Anesthesia & Analgesia.
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