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Study of Post-operative Patients

Posted by BostonBoy on September 25, 2001 at 14:24:14:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010925/hl/apnea_1.html will bring you to a Reuters report of a study in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. It compares outcomes of 101 patients with known OSA and a control group of 101 pts., all of whom received hip or knee replacement surgery.

Briefly, the key findings are
1) 20% of the OSA pts. had to be transferred to intensive care because of low oxygen sat numbers or heart-related concerns (6% in the control group)
2) "However, among the 33 sleep apnea patients who reported using home continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)--the standard treatment for moderate to severe sleep apnea, at the time of their surgery--there were fewer ICU transfers and a decreased incidence of serious complications. These individuals also had a slightly shorter hospital stay than did their peers who did not use CPAP.
3) pts. with untreated OSA typically spent 2 days longer in hospital following their surgery.


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