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A Model to Simulate Clinically Relevant Hypoxia in Humans
Published on: December 22, 2016
Monitoring respiration during sleep
1Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 4301 West Markham, Slot 555, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA. leechiongteofilol@uams.edu
Abstract:
The sleep-related breathing disorders have been categorized in various ways. The most basic schema divides them into obstructive or central apneic events. An American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) Task Force Report published in 1999 defined four separate syndromes associated with abnormal respiratory events during sleep among adults, namely, obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS), central sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome, Cheyne-Stokes breathing syndrome, and sleep hypoventilation syndrome. In this classification, the upper airway resistance syndrome was not regarded as a distinct syndrome; instead, respiratory event-related arousals (RERAs) were considered part of the syndrome of OSAHS.
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