Sentences with phrase «responsible for sleep apnea»
Dr. Joshua H. Atkins and Dr. Jeff E. Mandel of the University of Pennsylvania and their colleagues have developed a new «ramp control» anesthetic technique for putting patients to sleep briefly - just enough to show the «obstructive anatomy» responsible for sleep apnea.
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Months after the deadly September train crash inside Hoboken Terminal, in which the engineer responsible was found to have sleep apnea, less than half of NJ Transit's locomotive engineers and a small number of conductors and signalmen have been screened for the disorder.
«Our goal was to identify the circuitry responsible for waking the brain up during sleep apnea, which is distinct from the part of the brain that controls breathing,» said Saper, who is also the James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School.
Sleep apnea has previously been ruled responsible for a 2013 MetroNorth train derailment that killed four people, and has likely contributed to countless automobile crashes, says Dr. Pack.
Moreover, untreated sleep apnea may be responsible for job impairment and motor vehicle crashes.
Hired as a consultant to be responsible for the launch and sales effort for the first ever FDA cleared portable CPAP device for patients with obstructive sleep apnea.