Chronic intermittent hypoxia is independently associated with reduced postoperative opioid consumption in bariatric patients suffering from sleep-disordered breathing.

Evidence suggests that recurrent nocturnal hypoxemia may affect pain response and/or the sensitivity to opioid analgesia. We tested the hypothesis that nocturnal hypoxemia, quantified by sleep time spent at an arterial saturation (SaO2) < 90% and minimum nocturnal SaO2 on polysomnography, are ass...

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Main Authors: Alparslan Turan, Jing You, Cameron Egan, Alex Fu, Ashish Khanna, Yashar Eshraghi, Raktim Ghosh, Somnath Bose, Shahbaz Qavi, Lovkesh Arora, Daniel I Sessler, Anthony G Doufas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4444020?pdf=render