Sleep Disordered Breathing and Chronic Respiratory Failure in Patients with Chronic Pain on Long Term Opioid Therapy | Zendy

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Sleep Disordered Breathing and Chronic Respiratory Failure in Patients with Chronic Pain on Long Term Opioid Therapy

Author(s) -

Anand Rose,

Peter Catcheside,

R. Doug McEvoy,

Denzil Paul,

Dilip Kapur,

Emily Peak,

Andrew Vakulin,

Nicholas Antic

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

journal of clinical sleep medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.529

H-Index - 92

eISSN - 1550-9397

pISSN - 1550-9389

DOI - 10.5664/jcsm.3950

Subject(s) - medicine , anesthesia , opioid , polysomnography , polysomnogram , chronic pain , apnea , sleep apnea , physical therapy , receptor

The use of opioid medication for chronic pain has been increasing. The main aim of this study was to assess how many patients on opioids for chronic pain had sleep disordered breathing (SDB) and the type of SDB. The impact of these medications on daytime arterial blood gas (ABG) measurements and psychomotor vigilance was also studied.

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