Labra A, Valdés-Pineda V, Rivera-Ramírez OA, Huerta-Delgado ÁD

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Background: Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome is a common disease in general population and somnoplasty is an effective treatment. The use of local anesthesia and sedation may provide an increased tolerability during procedure and better results.
Objective: To compare some parameters of efficacy and safety in patients submitted to somnoplasty to treat obstructive sleep apnea syndrome between a group receiving sedation and another that was given only local anesthesia.
Patients and method: A retrospective, longitudinal, analytic and nonrandomized study was done with 80 patients, who underwent to multilevel somnoplasty and were divided into two groups: one receiving local anesthesia and the other one receiving local anesthesia and sedation. Complications, surgical time and pain were evaluated.
Results: We found six complications, five of them in local anesthesia group. The surgical time was significantly lower in this group; however, we did not found differences in pain between groups.
Conclusions: Sedation added during multilevel somnoplasty procedure decreases the incidence of complications, surgical time and discomfort during the procedure.

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