Sun Sleep: Sleep Apnea Ahi Over 100

Post by necro wed aug 12 2009 1 19 pm to be honest i dont remember what my readings were at my followup but i think it was in the 10 15 range ahi and o2 was at 96. We regularly get people with ahis over 100 and i have seen a couple over 200.

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Pathophysiology

Sleep apnea is when you stop breathing for 10 seconds or more.

Sleep apnea ahi over 100. The ahi will be used to help select the most appropriate treatment. We carried out a case control study on male patients with osa who were seen in a private hospital in lima peru between 2006 and 2012. The ahi is the sum of the number of apneas pauses in breathing plus the number of hypopneas periods of shallow breathing that occur on average each hour.

Those people suffering from a heart condition might be well advised to take a look at their sleep health to better understand why as a quarter of all deaths in the us are cardiac related. A woman with sleep apnea messaged us after she noticed that over the previous week her ahi had fluctuated between 1 9 and 5. Goal ahi to optimize cpap therapy.

Some statistics on sleep apnea mortality estimate that at least 38 000 people die annually from heart disease directly complicated by sleep apnea. Cases were identified if their apnoea hypopnea index ahi was higher than 100 extreme osa and four controls were selected per case. There is a theoretical maximum based upon the rules for scoring analysing sleep studies but it is not exact.

Apnea hypopnea index ahi measures sleep apnea severity. For an apnea hypopnea index or ahi from 5 to 15 denotes mild sleep apnea. Intro and who here has ahi 100.

The ahi as with the separate apnea index and hypopnea index is calculated by dividing the number of events by the number of hours of sleep. Why does my ahi change. She said she hadn t had a 5 in 10 years but now they were coming every other night even though her cpap machine was reporting a good mask fit each morning.

I work in a sleep lab and your ahi of 80 is high but certainly not record breaking by our standards. From the ahi rating chart here we see that an index less that 5 is considered normal. The use of continuous positive airway pressure cpap is appropriate for mild moderate or severe sleep apnea.

To count in the index apneas and hypopneas collectively called events must have a duration of at least 10 seconds. The apnea hypopnea index ahi is a scale that tells whether you have a sleep disorder called apnea and if so how serious it is. Prior to sleep apnea diagnosis patients utilized 23 50 more medical resources17 total economic cost of sleepiness approximately 43 56 billion18 undiagnosed moderate to severe sleep apnea in middle aged adults may cause 3 4 billion in additional medical costs in the us19 sleep apnea facts and figures.

Two with 15 29 ahi and two with 30 50 ahi matched according to case diagnosis dates.

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