ArticleJournal of thoracic disease2018
Peri-operative treatment of sleep-disordered breathing and outcomes in bariatric patients.
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- SICOB Italian clinical practice guidelines for the surgical treatment of obesity and associated diseases using GRADE methodology on bariatric and metabolic surgery.Updates in surgery · 2025Guideline
- Effect of positive airway pressure on obese patients undergoing surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC anesthesiology · 2024Pooled it
- Impact of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Surgical Patients: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- A Debate on Surgical and Nonsurgical Approaches for Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Comprehensive Review.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Review
- Screening and treatment of pre-bariatric surgical patients with obesity related sleep disordered breathing.Journal of thoracic disease · 2023Article
- Peri-operative outcomes of bariatric surgery in obstructive sleep apnoea: a single-centre cohort study.Journal of thoracic disease · 2023Article
- Stomatognathic System Changes in Obese Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery: A Systematic Review.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Review
- Pre-operative screening for sleep disordered breathing: obstructive sleep apnoea and beyond.Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2022Review
- The Bariatric-Metabolic Physician's Role in Managing Clinically Severe Obesity.Current obesity reports · 2021Review
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- Clinical practice guidelines of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES) on bariatric surgery: update 2020 endorsed by IFSO-EC, EASO and ESPCOP.Surgical endoscopy · 2020Article
- Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Screening Preoperatively with the Epworth Questionnaire: Is It Worth It…?Obesity surgery · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundObstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is increasingly common in bariatric patients undergoing sedation during elective surgery. However, it has not been established how significant a contributor it is to peri-operative respiratory complications and mortality. We sought to pre-operatively identify OSA in bariatric patients and record peri-operative complications during and after bariatric surgery.
methodsData were collected and analysed from June 2014 to March 2017 for 410 bariatric surgery patients referred to the sleep laboratory for pre-operative screening and treatment of OSA. The STOP-Bang questionnaire, Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) and nocturnal pulse oximetry were recorded and treatment was allocated with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). Peri-operative complications and mortality were the primary outcome measures for patients receiving CPAP treatment for OSA, with patients who did not require CPAP used as control. The mean follow-up time for all patients was 433 and 732 days for the patients who had undergone bariatric surgery. The two groups were compared with Chi square test and unpaired two-tailed
resultsOSA was present in any form in 70% of the screened patients; 40% of patients involved in the study received CPAP treatment. Patients receiving CPAP treatment [49.5 (11.3) years old, 61% female, 50.3 (8.5) kg/m
conclusionsBariatric patients who are screened pre-operatively for OSA and treated according to guidelines have no increased risk of respiratory complications compared to patients without OSA.
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