Lost sleep takes a toll, both on your quality of life and your heart health. If insomnia continues to be an issue three to four weeks after your surgery, talk to your doctor. But don’t wait even that long if you feel like your sleeplessness is having a significant impact on your dail...
Cardiac SurgeryThoracic SurgerySleepSleep DeprivationFactors Influencing Sleep Quality (FISQObjective: Sleeping problems are among the issues most mentioned by patients after cardiotho-racic surgery. These problems can have a negative effect on duration of the hospital stay and recovery. In the ward of...
However comfortable you can get yourself after surgery means nothing if you don’t know a good way to get in and out of bed. If you step out of bed wrong or lay down without thinking it through, you increase the potential for additional pain. Even after painkillers start to do their wo...
Pre-operative pain is a strong predictor of pain after knee surgery [7,8,9]. A recent systematic review and meta-analysis demonstrated that presence of pre-operative pain predicts post-operative pain and that pre-operative pain was one of the most studied predictors of pain after surgery [10...
Treatment for central sleep apnea may include lifestyle changes, medications, or surgery. REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is when people act out their dreams during REM sleep. It can cause disruptive behavior, such as talking, shouting, or flailing arms and legs. Treatment for RBD may ...
Up to 20% of patients experience long-term pain and dissatisfaction after total knee replacement, with a negative impact on their quality of life. New approaches are needed to reduce the proportion of people to go on to experience chronic post-surgical p
Forty subjects with insomnia associated with chronic musculoskeletal pain completed questionnaires addressing clinical issues of pain severity, medication use, sleep quality, and affective distress. For 2 consecutive nights, each subject then completed a sleep diary and wore an actigraph unit on the non...
Surgery can be effective for some patients and may help patients respond to CPAP. Newer, implantable devices that stimulate the muscles of the upper airway during sleep may also be a treatment option for some patients. Are sleep problems and disease related? Sleep problems occur in several ...
Evaluation of quality of life after surgical treatment of thoracic outlet syndrome. Ann. Vasc. Surg. 2022. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed] Goeteyn, J.; Pesser, N.; Houterman, S.; van Sambeek, M.R.; van Nuenen, B.F.; Teijink, J.A. Surgery versus continued conservative ...
The panel of experts reached a complete consensus on the need to inform the patient of all the non-surgical options before surgery for OSA. Also, after gathering knowledge of those treatment methods, the patient’s desire to proceed with the surgical treatment would be considered sufficient for ...