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Use of a home positive airway pressure device during intraoperative monitored anesthesia care for outpatient surgery. Journal of anesthesia Borg, L., Walters, T. L., Siegel, L. C., Dazols, J., Mariano, E. R. 2016; 30 (4): 707-710

Abstract

Perioperative positive airway pressure (PAP) is recommended by the American Society of Anesthesiologists for patients with obstructive sleep apnea, but a readily available and personalized intraoperative delivery system does not exist. We present the successful use of a patient's own nasal PAP machine in the operating room during outpatient foot surgery which required addition of a straight adaptor for oxygen delivery and careful positioning of the gas sampling line to permit end-tidal carbox dioxide monitoring. Home PAP machines may provide a potential alternative to more invasive methods of airway management for patients with obstructive sleep apnea under moderate sedation.

View details for DOI 10.1007/s00540-016-2188-z

View details for PubMedID 27169990