Sleep-disordered breathing and postoperative outcomes: patient safety first!

Affiliations

¹ Emergency Department, Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, "G.B. Morgagni" Hospital, Forlì, Italy. Electronic address: rmcorso@gmail.com.
² Department of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
³ National Research Council of Italy - Institute of Biomedicine and Molecular Immunology, Palermo, Italy.
⁴ "S. Maugeri" Foundation, I.R.C.C.S. - Dept. of Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Scientific Institute of Veruno, Veruno, Italy.
⁵ Critical Care Medicine Department, "Città della salute e della scienza" Hospital, Turin, Italy.

Comment

Ruggero M Corso et al. Chest. 2013 Oct.

. 2013 Oct;144(4):1421-1422.

doi: 10.1378/chest.13-1342.

¹ Emergency Department, Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, "G.B. Morgagni" Hospital, Forlì, Italy. Electronic address: rmcorso@gmail.com.
² Department of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
³ National Research Council of Italy - Institute of Biomedicine and Molecular Immunology, Palermo, Italy.
⁴ "S. Maugeri" Foundation, I.R.C.C.S. - Dept. of Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Scientific Institute of Veruno, Veruno, Italy.
⁵ Critical Care Medicine Department, "Città della salute e della scienza" Hospital, Turin, Italy.

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Mokhlesi B. Mokhlesi B. Chest. 2013 Oct;144(4):1422. doi: 10.1378/chest.13-1752. Chest. 2013. PMID: 24081364 No abstract available.

Sleep-disordered breathing and postoperative outcomes after elective surgery: analysis of the nationwide inpatient sample.
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