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Management of a patient with sleep apnea has implications during surgery and in the postoperative recovery period. Sleep apnea is common in surgical patients. Many of these patients with sleep apnea have comorbidities that make the management of anesthesia potentially challenging. This chapter discusses sleep apnea, and comorbidities which are frequently associated with sleep apnea, as it impacts the perioperative management of a patient, and the consequences of untreated obstructive sleep apnea. Many of the most common perioperative evaluations for sleep apnea and perioperative use of CPAP are discussed, as well as the consequences associated with untreated sleep apnea.

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Saus, J.A., Hopper, K.R., O’Neal, B.J. (2019). Sleep Apnea. In: Fox, III, C., Cornett, E., Ghali, G. (eds) Catastrophic Perioperative Complications and Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96125-5_1

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