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Postoperative episodic oxygen desaturation in the sleep apnoea syndrome
1Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Hvidovre University Hospital, Denmark.
Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
|May 1, 1991
Abstract:
We describe a patient with sleep apnoea syndrome who showed severe episodic hypoxaemia in the late postoperative period. The sleep apnoea syndrome should be studied further to evaluate its significance as a surgical risk factor.