apnea/hypopnea duration re Sp02

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1210donna
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apnea/hypopnea duration re Sp02

Post by 1210donna » Sat Aug 10, 2013 6:37 pm

just found I had a hypopnea of 130 secs... what would that mean in SPo2 terms?

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Re: apnea/hypopnea duration re Sp02

Post by Scooter32 » Sat Aug 10, 2013 6:44 pm

While I am still rather new at this, I don't think you can correlate a set number to that. It depends on how bad the hypopnea was I think but I am thinking with that longer duration you would definitely see a marked SpO2 desaturation.

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Re: apnea/hypopnea duration re Sp02

Post by LSAT » Sat Aug 10, 2013 8:56 pm

Hypopnias do not affect O2 as much as apneas