Obstructive Sleep Apnoea

  • Brian M Gardner University of the Witwatersrand
Keywords: Obstructive Sleep Apnoea, sleep-disordered breathing disorders

Abstract

Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) disorders include: central sleep apnoea (Cheyne-Stokes respiration), obstructive sleep apnoea and mixed or complex sleep apnoea.1 Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is the most common of these three disorders and is defined as airway obstruction during sleep, accompanied by at least five episodes of apnoea or hypopnoea per hour. Each episode is often associated with a decrease in arterial oxygen saturation of > 4%.

Author Biography

Brian M Gardner, University of the Witwatersrand
Department of Anaesthesia Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital University of the Witwatersrand
Issue
Vol 56 No 5: September/October 2014
Section
Review Articles
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