Sleep Hypoventilation: A State-of-the-Art Overview, An Issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics: Volume 9-3

This issue, edited by Dr. Babak Mokhlesi, features comprehensive discussion on the subject of Hypoventilation. Articles include: The History of Hypoventilation Syndromes; Pathophysiology of Hypoventilation During Sleep, Sleep Hypoventilation: Diagnostic Considerations and Technological Limitations; Advances in Positive Airway Pressure Treatment Modalities for Hypoventilation Syndromes; Scoring Abnormal Respiratory Events on Polysomnography During Noninvasive Ventilation; Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome: Epidemiology and Diagnosis; Outcomes for Obese Patients with Chronic Respiratory Failure: Results from Observational and Randomized Controlled Trials; Non-PAP Treatment Modalities in Obesity-Hypoventilation Syndrome: Role of Exercise, Nonsurgical and Surgical Weight Reduction, Tracheostomy, Respiratory Stimulants, and Oxygen, and more!

Product details

• Authors: Babak Mokhlesi, Babak (U Chicago) Mokhlesi, Mokhlesi Babak
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Languages: English
• Released: 30.09.2014
• EAN: 9780323326803
• ISBN: 978-0-323-32680-3
• Dimensions: 249 mm x 181 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 610 g
• Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Sleep disorders & therapy, Sleep disorders and therapy, MEDICAL / Sleep Medicine