Use of oximetry to screen for paediatric obstructive sleep apnoea: is one night enough and is 6 hours too much?

Compliance with nasal CPAP therapy for obstructive sleep apnoea: how much is enough?

Is enough oxygen too much?

Human cells require O2 for their energy supply, and critical illness can threaten the efficient delivery of O2 in accordance with tissue metabolic needs. In the accompanying article, Martin and colleagues point out that hypoxia is a normal and well-tolerated stress during embryonic development. A better understanding of how fetal cells survive these conditions and how adult cells adapt to high ...

Paediatric obstructive sleep apnoea.

Department of Otolaryngology, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough TS4 3BW Department of Paediatric Otolaryngology, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow G3 8SJ Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4LP Department of Anaesthesia, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough TS4 3BW Correspondence to: S Powell steven_m_powe...

How much sleep apnea is too much?

Events of breathing interruption are universally observed during sleep. Togo and colleagues [1], in a study to identify respiratory and movement sleep disorders in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients with and without fibromyalgia (FM), employed an apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) of 18 events per hour as the normal limit and reported an absence of diagnosable sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). The...

Protein for preterm infants: how much is needed? How much is enough? How much is too much?

Preterm infants require considerably more protein to achieve normal intrauterine growth rates than is commonly fed to them during their first postnatal days. Continuing protein nutrition to maintain normal growth rates often is not achieved until several weeks after birth. Most very preterm infants do not receive the protein necessary to produce the 2-3 kilograms of body mass over a 12-16 week ...