Posted in: Literature Updates, Sleep
Posted: November 1, 2014
Authors: McEntire DM, Kirkpatrick DR, Kerfeld MJ, Hambsch ZJ, Reisbig MD, Agrawal DK, Youngblood CF.
Published: Expert Rev Clin Pharmacol. 2014 Nov;7(6):787-806.

This article critically reviewed the literature relevant to preoperative screening for OSA, prevalence of OSA in surgical populations and changes in postoperative sleep architecture relevant to OSA patients … in regard to the effects of sedative-hypnotics, anesthetics and analgesics on sleep architecture, the underlying mechanisms and the relevance to OSA.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25318836