Frances Chung, Stavros Memtsoudis, Satya Krishna Ramachandran, Mahesh Nagappa, Mathias Opperer, Crispiana Cozowicz, Sara Patrawala, David Lam, Anjana Kumar, Girish P Joshi, John Fleetham, Najib Ayas, Nancy Collop, Anthony Doufas, Matthias Eikermann, Marina Englesakis, Bhargavi Gali, Peter Gay, Adrian Hernandes, Roop Kaw, Eric Kezirian, Atul Malhotra, Babak Mokhlesi, Sairam Parthasarathy, Tracey Stierer, Frank Wappler, David R Hillman, Dennis Auckley
The purpose of the Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine guideline on preoperative screening and assessment of patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is to present recommendations based on the available clinical evidence on the topic where possible. As very few well-performed randomized studies in this field of perioperative care are available, most of the recommendations were developed by experts in the field through consensus processes involving utilization of evidence grading to indicate the level of evidence upon which recommendations were based...
June 1, 2016: Anesthesia and Analgesia