Sleep Apnea Diagnosis and Medical Management Form

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well welcome to another MedCram lecture we could talk about obstructive sleep apnea and specifically we're going to get into the pathophysiology the risk factors the diagnosis and the treatment for obstructive sleep apnea ok let's talk a little bit about the pathophysiology thought the physiology is the basically how do things go wrong so what is obstructive sleep apnea it's basically literally when you stop breathing because of an obstruction and if you were to look at somebody's cross section of their face and I'll just kind of draw I'm not a very good artist but you can kind of see what it is that I am talking about here and this is the nose here this is the person lying on their back and this is the airway going down kind of a simple drawing yes but gets the point across and here's the tongue basically in this area so you've got two areas where air can travel they can go into the nose and it can go into the mouth the problem is is back here in this area here this is where the back