Overview
- Positional therapy is the most promising new development in treating mild to moderate sleep breathing disorders
- Provides tools to diagnose obstructive sleep apnea and implement positional therapy in clinical practice
- A complete resource for physicians, students and researchers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (36 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Initial Work Up: Polysomnography
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Initial Work Up: Drug Induced Sleep Endoscopy
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Sleep Position in Specific Patient Groups
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About this book
Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is the most prevalent sleep disordered breathing disorder. It has become apparent that in more than half the patients with OSA, the frequency and duration of apneas are influenced by body position. To treat patients with Position Dependent OSA (POSA), positional therapy can be considered for preventing patients from sleeping in the worst sleeping position. Treatment of POSA has advanced dramatically recently with the introduction of a new generation of positional therapy.
Positional Therapy in Obstructive Sleep Apnea presents improved OSA diagnostic methods and the tools needed to implement positional therapy in clinical practice. This includes patient work-up, positional therapy with or without other treatments, consequences of guidelines and future developments.
Clinicians, students and researchers will find this comprehensive guide to be an invaluable resource for evaluating and treating sleep breathing disorders.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nico de Vries, MD, PhD, dept Otolaryngology, St Lucas Andreas Hospital, Jan Tooropstraat 164, 1061AE Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Madeline Ravesloot, Sint Lucas Andreas Ziekenhuis, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J. Peter van Maanen, Sint Lucas Andreas Ziekenhuis, Department of Otolaryngology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Positional Therapy in Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Editors: Nico de Vries, Madeline Ravesloot, J. Peter van Maanen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09626-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-09625-4Published: 19 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34280-1Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-09626-1Published: 05 November 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 414
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour
Topics: Otorhinolaryngology, Occupational Therapy, General Practice / Family Medicine