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The General Universitario Morales Meseguer Hospital is studying the effectiveness of a modern device designed to improve sleep for those suffering from sleep apnea.
This disease affects more than one percent of all children, including a four and six percent of men and about four percent of women.
Sleep apnea causes drowsiness and tiredness during the day so it is directly related to the increase of traffic accidents and industrial accidents.
Although this prosthesis is already being applied in other regions, the Morales Meseguer is ensuring the effectiveness of the device to start recommending it to patients who will benefit in particular to see its implementation.
Each patient will require a specific device made to your specifications.
The prosthesis is placed in the mouth while the patient is sleeping, so that prevents airway closure and thus improves the patient's quality of sleep, rest and respiratory activity in general.
The sleep unit at Hospital Morales Meseguer has selected 110 patients to perform the work on the efficacy and tolerance of the device.
The elect will be divided into two groups, and 50 percent will be treated with CPAP (commonly known as a mask that delivers air pressure through the nose to prevent the patient stops breathing during sleep), a common technique applied and , and 50 percent, with this new system, known as MAD (mandibular advancement devices).
Both groups will be considered by the doctors who sleep disorders services Pulmonology, ENT, Dentistry and Anesthesia.
The intention is to compare both types of therapies.
If treatment with AMD has shown efficacy in the extensive bibliography by specialists and is expected by the team of doctors will be recommended to patients who can benefit from this new technique.
The study group is composed of a pulmonologist Julián Caballero Rodríguez, Manuel Hernández Aliaga dentists and otolaryngologists Wonders Raquel Gil Velez and Esther Redondo Liciáñez.
The study is being funded by the management of Morales Meseguer, since this new device is not included among the benefits of the NHS as it is a dental prosthesis.
Sleep Apnea
Sleep apnea is unconscious sleep disruption.
The upper airways are obstructed in whole or in part on a regular basis during sleep.
These blockages cause in turn a significant reduction in the amount of oxygen that must come to blood, which causes the so-called non-conscious arousals.
This in turn degenerates into a major general feeling of drowsiness and deep fatigue in the patient throughout the day.
When a person has not slept well for several nights, feeling tired and dream is increasingly emphasizing.
It is therefore not surprising that cases such as drivers who have fallen asleep at the wheel or serious accidents caused by workers, who in the middle of their day, have fallen asleep.
Furthermore, not all reach the level of oxygen that would be necessary, sleep apnea also causes a significant increase in risk of cardiovascular disease.
The first warning sign of sleep apnea is snoring, though not all snorers suffer from this disease.
Snoring is a sure sign that there is an obstruction of respiratory airways, but when it swells and becomes constant the problem can begin to be serious.
There are people who stop breathing for about ten times per hour of sleep.
This is a slight problem.
Twenty times per hour of sleep moderate.
Stop breathing thirty times per hour of sleep is already a severe problem.
However there have been cases of patients who have come to stop breathing up to one hundred times per hour of sleep.
The main risk factors include being overweight, although there are cases of people who are overweight or suffer from sleep apnea-depressant substance in general and alcohol.
Sleep apnea suffer mainly adult males.
For women the prevalence is lower, but after menopause, after which time levels between men and women are equivalent.
Source: CARM
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