Satya Krishna Ramachandran

TL;DR: A systematic review and meta-analysis confirms the high performance of the STOP-Bang questionnaire in the sleep clinic and surgical population for screening of OSA and predicts its accuracy in determining the severity of Osa in the different populations.

TL;DR: Comparison of clinical screening tests for obstructive sleep apnea revealed that clinical models, logarithmic equations, combined techniques, cephalometry, and morphometry are significant characteristics, whereas body mass index, history of hypertension, and nocturnal choking are significant test elements associated with higher diagnostic accuracy.

TL;DR: The purpose of the Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine guideline on preoperative screening and assessment of adult patients with obstructive sleep apnea is to present recommendations based on the available clinical evidence where possible, and these recommendations reflect the current state of knowledge and its interpretation by a group of experts in the field at the time of publication.

TL;DR: This negative trial could not detect a difference in the incidence of definite awareness or recovery variables between monitoring protocols based on either BIS values or anesthetic concentration.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the influence of nasal oxygen (O 2 ) administration on the duration of arterial oxygen saturation during simulated difficult laryngoscopy in obese patients.