The association between obstructive sleep apnoea, delirium and pain: does it exist or is it just in our heads?

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S G Memtsoudis. Anaesthesia. 2019 Dec.

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. 2019 Dec;74(12):1497-1499.

doi: 10.1111/anae.14498. Epub 2019 Sep 18.

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Management, Hospital for Special Surgery - Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA.

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Keywords: delirium; perioperative outcomes; sleep apnoea.

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The relationship between obstructive sleep apnoea and postoperative delirium and pain: an observational study of a surgical cohort.
Strutz PK, Kronzer V, Tzeng W, Arrington B, McKinnon SL, Ben Abdallah A, Haroutounian S, Avidan MS. Strutz PK, et al. Anaesthesia. 2019 Dec;74(12):1542-1550. doi: 10.1111/anae.14855. Epub 2019 Sep 18. Anaesthesia. 2019. PMID: 31531850 Free PMC article.

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