SLEEP APNEA
Blair Lazarus
December 2, 2014
What is Sleep Apnea?
• Sleep apnea is an involuntary cessation of breathing that
occurs while the patient is asleep. There are three types of
sleep apnea: obstructive, central, and mixed. Of the three,
obstructive sleep apnea, often called OSA for short, is the
most common. Despite the difference in the root cause of
each type, in all three, people with untreated sleep apnea
stop breathing repeatedly during their sleep, sometimes
hundreds of times during…
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