Apnea is defined as a period in which an infant stops breathing. When the apnea period is greater than a critical period, serious damage in the infant's brain may result from lack of oxygen. In order to prevent this serious event, a need exists to find a reliable way to detect apnea ...
Notes: For purposes of this policy, apnea is defined as a cessation of airflow for at least 10 seconds. Hypopnea is defined as an abnormal respiratory event lasting at least 10 seconds with at least a 30 % reduction in thoraco-abdominal movement or airflow as compared to baseline, and wi...
Apnea is defined as the cessation of respiratory airflow. Sleep Apnea is a growing disorder affecting children and adults without discrimination to age, gender, race or sex. There are three main categories of apnea: central, obstructive, and mixed. Although there are many forms of sleeping disor...
Obstructive sleep apnea(OSA) is defined as complete or partialairway obstructioncausing intermittent cessation of breathing during sleep. That will lead to intermittenthypoxemia,hypercapnia, microarousals, and disconnected sleep.63,64Studies report that more than 60% of stroke patients have OSA.65,66OS...
Routine identification of sleep apnea with polysomnography rather than screening is more appropriate in this group due to the high prevalence. Keywords: Body water, Chronic kidney failure, Quality of life, Renal dialysis, Sleep Background Sleep apnea is defined as an apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) ≥...
is defined as a cessation of all nasal and oralbreathing, despite diaphragm activity, for periods of ten seconds or longer; "central" apnea is cessation of breathing with no diaphragm activity, vs. "mixed", a combination of both. A significant concern about a potentialsleep apnea problem is ...
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is a mysterious phenomena that has managed to confound science so far. SIDS is defined as the sudden death of any infant or young child that is unexpected by history and in which a thorough post mortem examination fails to demonstrate an adequate cause (...
2 Apnea is defined as total airway obstruction (>90%) for more than 10 seconds, and hypopnea as a partial airway obstruction (>30%) sufficient to cause at least a 3% reduction in blood oxygen saturation or sleep arousals.3 The apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) is used to define the severity ...
Prolonged apnea is defined as cessation of breathing for 20 seconds or longer, or as a briefer episode associated with bradycardia, cyanosis, or pallor. Present etiological considerations in prolonged apnea include seizure disorders, severe infections, significant anemia (especially in infants who were ...
Sleepis defined as a state of unconsciousness from which a person can be aroused, therefore, external stimuli have no effect. In this state, the brain is relatively more responsive to internal stimuli than external stimuli. Sleep should be distinguished fromcoma. Coma is an unconscious state from...