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Aug 07 2010

In a person with sleep apnea, which causes an increase in falls and oxygen saturation of arterial blood during sleep?

Posted by: Alan in Obstructive Sleep Apnea, tags: Apnea., arterial, blood, Causes, During, falls, increase, Oxygen, Person, saturation, Sleep

request majetn : In a person with sleep apnea, which causes increased falls and oxygen saturation of arterial blood during sleep? I am not overweight and not sleep apnea. It is a matter of biology. If I made a graph of oxygen saturation from the time of someone who has severe obstructive sleep apnea, while they slept, what led to saturation of going up and down over time? best answer:

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2 Responses to “In a person with sleep apnea, which causes an increase in falls and oxygen saturation of arterial blood during sleep?”

Chris says:

August 7th, 2010 at 3:28 pm
well are you overwieght or obese cause apnea is most common for obese/overweight people, if so thats why.
Owen says:

August 7th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
When a patient has sleep events they temporarily stop breathing, which causes the desaturation of oxygen. Furthermore, the events do not happen all the time, events can happen only in specific sleep positions.

generally they do not use Arterial Blood Gases during these overnight polysonomographs, they use a finger pulse oximeter.

So the rise and fall is a direct result of when the patient has apneas and hypopneas