The ramp - control DISE technique is efficient, administering just enough anesthetic to produce the desired level of sedation within a few minutes; and safe, with relatively small drops in blood oxygen saturation level. (sciencedaily.com)
The subjects also experienced hypoxic effects, as cessations in breathing cause blood oxygen saturation levels to drop, possibly triggering optic nerve damage that can lead to glaucoma. (sciencedaily.com)
Several MR methods have been proposed over the last decade to obtain quantitative estimates of the tissue blood oxygen saturation (StO2) using a quantification of the blood oxygen level dependent (semanticscholar.org)