Moreover, they stated that there is currently insufficient evidence to analyze the role of glossectomy as a stand-alone procedure for the treatment of OSA, although the evidence suggested positive outcomes in select patients.The authors stated that this study had some several drawbacks. There is ...
Aetna considers pharyngeal and lingual tonsillectomy medically necessary as an isolated procedure in adult OSA where hypertrophied tonsils compromise the airway space. A tonsillectomy is also considered medically necessary with UPPP in members who meet medical necessity criteria for UPPP below. An adenoidec...
in this study, a group of 22 children with psg-proven osas was identified by sleep endoscopy to have occult laryngomalacia subsequently treated with supraglottoplasty. all patients underwent preoperative and postoperative polysomnograms, which objectively demonstrate the efficacy of this procedure. ...
Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT) is a facility based study that is used to measure the ability to stay awake and alert. The procedure protocol is similar to that of the MSLT, with the exception that an individual is given four nap trials, each trial consisting of a forty minute sessio...
A similar study, but this time including a combination of ECG, EDA and EEG signals, was conducted in [13], providing some evidence on the benefits of Tibetan Singing Bowls in metastatic cancer patients. The previously mentioned works have put special interest in the EDA signal, considered an ...
This procedure has proven to be effective for real data when sufficient data points (in practice, a few thousands) are available [46,47]. 2.5. Statistical Analysis All variables at each recording time were compared to the baseline using two-sided Wilcoxon signed-rank tests to evaluate the ...
sensors Article A Wireless Monitoring System Using a Tunneling Sensor Array in a Smart Oral Appliance for Sleep Apnea Treatment Kun-Ying Yeh 1,*, Chao-Chi Yeh 2, Chun-Chang Wu 1 ID , Kuan Tang 1, Jyun-Yi Wu 1, Yun-Ting Chen 2, Ming-Xin Xu 2, Yunn-Jy Chen 3, Yao-Joe Yang 2...