How to treat sleep apnea syndrome? Surgical treatment?

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The vulgar understanding of sleep apnea syndrome, is snoring, sleep apnea syndrome, also known as sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome, refers to: sleep 7 hours per night in the process of repeated apnea attacks more than 30 times or sleep apnea hypopnea index (AHI) ≥ 5 times / hour and accompanied by drowsiness and other clinical symptoms. Apnea refers to the complete stop of breath flow in the mouth and nose for more than 10 seconds during sleep; hypoventilation refers to the decrease of breath flow intensity (amplitude) by more than 50% compared with the basic level during sleep, accompanied by the decrease of blood oxygen saturation by more than 4% compared with the basic level. Now let me share how to treat sleep apnea syndrome.

How to treat sleep apnea syndrome? Surgical treatment?

First: nasal continuous positive airway pressure breathing. CPAP is like an air dilator of the upper airway, which can prevent the soft tissue from collapsing passively during inhalation, stimulate the mechanoreceptors of genioglossus muscle, and increase the airway tension. It can be used as a therapy alone or in combination with surgery, but it is difficult for ordinary patients to adhere to it for a long time.

Second: in foreign countries, especially in the United States, most patients can achieve satisfactory therapeutic effect through CPAP treatment, while in most hospitals in China, due to cognitive problems, the treatment of most patients is surgery.

Third: all kinds of appliances. During sleep, wearing special appliance can raise the soft palate, draw the tongue forward actively or passively, and move the jaw forward, so as to expand the oropharynx and hypopharynx, and improve the breathing. It is the main method for the treatment of snoring.

matters needing attention

The prognosis of the disease mainly depends on the nature and severity of the underlying disease, the severity of the syndrome itself, whether there are complications and the severity of complications. Of course, the time of diagnosis and treatment is also a very important factor affecting the prognosis.