Category: Sleep
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Surgery or CPAP for Sleep Disorder Breathing?
Dr.K.O.Paulose FRCS, DLO.Consultant ENT Surgeon. Jubilee Hospital, Trivandrum, Kerala, South India Surgical intervention the only alternative for some OSA patients; however, it is important to keep in mind that no surgical procedure is universally successful. In Severe Snoring and OSA CPAP and Surgical Treatment are the common options. But CPAP is not tolerated well by…
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Obese Snorer getting treated
Dr.K.O.Paulose FRCS DLO, Consultant ENT Surgeon, Jubilee Hospital, Trivandrum, Kerala, India. Snoring and sleep apnea is very common in obese patient and vice verse.Type 2 diabetes also common in these patients as a complication of snoring sleep apnea.Here an obese patient weighing 115kg is undergoing surgery to cure severe OSA (500+), he was not able…
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Turbinoplasty as part of sleep surgery
Dr.K.O.Paulose FRCS, DLO.Consultant ENT Surgeon. Jubilee Hospital, Trivandrum, Kerala, South India Here Coblator assisted inferior turbinoplasty is done as part of sleep surgery in an obese patient with severe snoring and sleep apnea. There are many surgical procedures used to correct the upper airway obstruction starting from the Nose to Larynx; nasal polypectomy, septoplasty, turbinoplasty,…