Tag: Surgery (Medical Specialty)
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Multilevel Surgery Cures Snoring and Sleep Apnea
For more videos, go to http://drpaulose.com Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is often a multi-level upper airway disorder in which anatomic factors in the nose, oral cavity, and throat collectively leads to obstruction during sleep. Nasal factors include deviated septum, turbinate hypertrophy, and adenoid hypertrophy. Oral cavity factors include large tongue, large tonsils, and uvular-palatal hypertrophy.…
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Throat Surgery in Snoring and Sleep Apnea:Dr.K.O.Paulose FRCS
For more videos and details, go to http://drpaulose.com The goal of surgery for sleep apnea is to enlarge the airway through your nose or throat that may be vibrating and causing you to snore or that may be blocking your upper air passages and causing sleep apnea. Radiofrequency energy (radiofrequency ablation) is used here.
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Snoring:Sleep Surgery:Dynamic Endoscopy
For more videos and details, go to http://drpaulose.com Dynamic nasal fibre optic endoscopy is very useful to identify the sites of obstruction in patients with Obstructive sleep apnea and snoring.This helps the anesthetist also before intubation for general anesthesia.It is routinely done before OSA surgery in Jubilee Hospital, Trivandrum, South India.
