TY - BOOK AU - Neveen Ashour Mohamed AU - Eman Ahmed Foaud , AU - Hannan Mahmod Kamal , AU - Mohamed Amr Mattar , TI - New guidelines in the perioperative management of obstructive sleep apnea patients guided by A.S.A / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Neveen Ashour Mohamed , KW - CPAP KW - Obstructive sleep apnea KW - Polysomnogram N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Anaesthesia; Issued also as CD N2 - Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is defined as the absence of air flow for more than ten seconds occurring more than 30 times during 7 hours of sleep despite continuing ventilatory efforts with associated decrease in arterial oxygen saturation for more than 4% from base line of patient. The association between sleep and anesthesia has clinical importance the presence of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome indicates a predisposition to upper airway obstruction under the influence of anesthetic or analgesic effect UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -