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Has anyone in their reading (I'm ashamed to say I haven't finished Dr. Dement's book, or Dr. Park's book) discovered when the medical profession first realized sleep apnea was a problem. The correlation between the symptoms- morning headache, fatigue, weight gain, or overweight, excessive daytime sleepiness, and snoring must have required some creative, out of the box thinking. Then to figure out it was a problem with the tissue of the upper airway collapsing that cut off breathing... Guess I better get back to those books.
Scott mentioned realized there were problems back in the early 1970s when he was working in Respiratory Therapy.
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Permalink Reply by RockRpsgt on
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Pickwickian Syndrome (OHS) was discovered in 1956 by American researchers. OSA was discovered in OHS pts 9 years later by a group of European pulmonologist. Their work was not very well published at this time. In 1970 while at Stanford Dr. Dement verified those findings with the first overnight recording of respiratory effort in conjunction with the EEG. It was not until Dr Guilleminault joined the Stanford group in 1972 that respiratory effort was recorded in all sleep studies.
This information was taken from Dr. Dement's book "The Promise of Sleep", and "The Essentials of Polysomnography" by Spriggs.
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Permalink Reply by Mary Z on
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If we called ourselves Pickwickians no one would know what in the world we were talking about. It might be a good chance to educate. Add a little drama to our story, and there we go...
When older people , or people my age (57) get together unless we are very careful the talk invariably turns to health. But sometimes you have to let someone know that you know they're having health problems and ask how they're doing which gets the whole group acting like we don't have anything fun to talk about. LOL!
Thanks Rock, the Merch Manuel taks about Pickwickian Syndrome, but I had forgot.
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Permalink Reply by sleepycarol on
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It makes you wonder what the field of medicine will look like in another 30 years. We are still learning so much and at such a fast pace now that the technology has gotten so advanced.
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sleepycarol, I hope I'm not here in 30 years, or if I am, still kicking and not senile. It's the next ten that's got me excited. That implant shows a lot of promise, and if every ENT surgeon reaches Dr. Park's level of sophistication... well that is exciting.
sleepycarol said:It makes you wonder what the field of medicine will look like in another 30 years.
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