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80.5% of Hospital Patients Are at High Risk for Sleep Apnea
"MAYWOOD, Ill. -- Eighty-one percent of hospital patients are at high
risk for obstructive sleep apnea, a Loyola University Health System study has
found.
risk for obstructive sleep apnea, a Loyola University Health System study has
found.
The findings suggest that hospitals should consider giving patients a five-minute screening test to identify those who are at high risk."
Full article: http://www.healthcanal.com/public-health-safety/12132-Loyola-Study-...
Astounding.
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Permalink Reply by Rooster on
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About hospitals being "on the ball" concerning patients with sleep apnea, I saw this in another forum posted just this morning by a patient on Long Island:
"Thursday night I was rushed to the hospital by ambulance with a heart attack.
It turned out not to be a heart attack (whew!), but that's not what this post is about.
It's about the hospital and OSA, and their lack of ability to care for OSA sufferers!
While I was in the ER with the "heart attack", I was seen by half a dozen different doctors (to the hospital's credit), all of whom asked about my medical history. I informed ALL of them about my OSA, and use of an auto bi-level pap machine. NONE of them knew what that was! They were only vagley aware what OSA was, and the only treatment was "One of those CPAP things" (a doctor's words, not mine!)
From the ER, I get wheeled into my room, the nurse comes in and goes over what's in store for me. She tells me the tests and meds they have planned for me, AND that I'll be getting a CPAP machine to use. I tell her I need a bi-pap, and she tells me..........are you ready for this????
THE HOSPITAL DOESN'T HAVE BI-LEVEL MACHINES!!!!
I started to explain things to the nurse, but she stoped me. She is a Hosehead herself and knows all about it already! I told her to cancel the order for the CPAP, and if I was going to be staying overnight, I'd bring my VPAP from home.
Not having the proper equipment in a hospital that has a HUGE sleep disorder clinic, is unexcuseable!
It gets even better (worse!) I see the Staff Doctor to get discharged. He tells me my chest pain was caused by my swallowing air from my CPAP. (Which I hadn't used yet) He goes on to say that ALL patients on CPAP swallow lots and lots of air ALL the time!!! I tell him I'm on a VPAP and he asks "What's that?" I go on to explain that, and everything else about OSA and it's proper treatment and side effects.....in GREAT detail! The "doctor" had no idea what I was talking about. If this man has ANY OSA patients, I feel sorry for them, truly sorry.
BTW, my "heart attack" according to my Cardioligist, was actually gas......NOT air from a CPAP!"
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Permalink Reply by Banyon on
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Rock Hinkle said:The majority of the hospitals out there have a screening processs in place.
Rock Hinkle said:Seek out the negative, find the negativity.
Rock, In your zest to defend your industry, you are spreading misinformation on a patient forum. Misinformation that may keep some patient-members of SleepGuide in the dark about hospitals ignorance of sleep apnea.
Contrary to what you have posted, many doctors and many hospital staff are still nearly totally clueless about sleep apnea.
Long Island eh? Cluelessness is not just in the hinterlands. Let the patient beware.
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