Warning

ablong · Post by **ablong** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:38 pm

This is a friendly warning if you have OSA
make sure if you go in hosptial for even out patient
procedures. Make sure all of the players know you have osa.

It can complicate any form of anathisia. I just had a colonoscopy and
every one knew but it still made a problem for the DR. When they would
get me out good I would quite breathing on them. The DR said no
Problem next time he would put me in hosptial and use a tube down
throat ventilator. Yuck

Best Wishes

allen

Slinky · Post by **Slinky** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:43 pm

Yuck, on the throat tube, Ablong, but it beats the alternative, right? Hopefully, they'll give you a bit of sedation before they do the intubation. Heck, for MOST surgeries they do now so why not for your scope too? As long as they are gonna sedate you anyway why not BEFORE the intubation?

ozij · Post by **ozij** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:41 pm

Where I had my colonosopy, they let me use my own cpap during the procedure.

O.

jdavis123 · Post by **jdavis123** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 1:55 am

Yes, I have a pamphlet that talks about going to hospitals if you have OSA and what to do. It does state to inform everyone about your condition and other handy information. I can scan it and send anyone a copy who wishes to have it.

wlo2008 · Post by **wlo2008** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 1:58 am

Yeah it would have been nice to have been diagnosed when I went through my C-sections. they just keep telling me to breath. LOL. I was like I am I am trying. And then in recovery the nurses would come in when the ox meter would go off and was like why are you holding your breath. I was like am not meaning to. You would have thought they would have looked into it. But nope just thought to tell me to breath would do it. LOL

echo · Post by **echo** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:06 am

ozij wrote:Where I had my colonosopy, they let me use my own cpap during the procedure.

Hey O - I can't remember if you tape? If so, did they have any problem with that?

SuperGeeky · Post by **SuperGeeky** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 11:00 am

Warning is right!! I got a Medical Alert badge around my neck. You can get one with a $25 donation to the Sleep Apnea Association.

If your in an accident and knocked out, my understanding, your brain can't wake you up to breath. Please correct me if I'm wrong about this assumption.

Think of all the folks, undiagnosed, who are put under. I really think it must be a very very confusing situation for the Medical doctors and nurses. All of sudden someone stops breathing? What a nightmare for everyone!

Thanks for the heads up. Possibly saved some lives on this one!

freepostg · Post by **freepostg** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 11:03 am

Good point on the medic alert. I had a colonoscopy and informed the team. The Doc. gave me a little valium through the iv and I was awake through the whole procedure...no probs. I don't understand the need to fully knock a person out...I guess everyone is different.

sharon1965 · Post by **sharon1965** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 11:05 am

when i had my septoplasty last year i was kept in overnight for what is normally a day patient procedure...i brought my cpap and made sure everyone knew about it, but when the staff RT came to set me up he said there was no way i could use it with all the packing and swelling...i was still unconscious by the time he came and went so i had no say in the matter...the nurses were in quite a flap all day and night, but luckily i was on step-down from ICU, so i had excellent care, and they monitored me very closely...so closely, in fact, that i got next to no rest lol

gasparama · Post by **gasparama** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 11:34 am

When I had major surgery 2 weeks ago, I was asked at about 3 points of the pre-admission process is I had SA and was told to bring my machine with me. The nurse who prepped me the morning of the surgery took my machine to the recovery room so that it would be ready for me when I got there. But no one set me up with my machine and I had a pretty severe incident of brachycardia while I was asleep and was put on a heart monitor (for the remainder of the 4 day stay in the hospital). I was in recovery for 4 hours, but I do not remember one thing about it. I awakened when I was being wheeled into my room. My husband said that they were trying to hook me up to some large machine and I told them that my machine was there and to use it. Someone then went back to the recovery to get it. They let me tape my mouth and strap on my mask through which they had threaded the oxygen tube. From that point on, everything was alright

However, I now have an appointment with a cardiologist for extensive testing to determine the cause of the brachycardia. I intend to talk to him about the failure to supply me with the necessary CPAP therapy during recovery. I also intend to contact the hospital about this because it was extremely dangerous and preventable.

I do realize that I may have developed a previously undetected heart problem. However, there is no doubt in my mind that it was aggravated by my failure to breathe regularly during recovery.

Jane

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 1:32 pm

Jane, don't expect your cardiologist to verify your suspicions. No doctor is going to implicate another medical team in doing the wrong thing. Why?

Because if you sue the OTHERS, they can come back on HIM.

I've been through this for five years with my father's neuropathy. We've taken him all over the country, and no one will confirm or deny our suspicions on what caused his problems. One doc has HINTED that he agrees with us, but that's all.

Best of luck!!!
Babs

Leonbergergirl · Post by **Leonbergergirl** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 1:49 pm

Wow, that's scary. I had bilateral knee replacement surgery, and total hip replacement surgery, and it never occurred to me to mention OSA. I wonder
if i had incidents during the surgery? (They did give me a machine for hospital
stay after the surgery, though.) Perhaps they decided that unconscious is not
the same as asleep?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 4:39 pm

Anonymous wrote:Jane, don't expect your cardiologist to verify your suspicions. No doctor is going to implicate another medical team in doing the wrong thing. Why?

Because if you sue the OTHERS, they can come back on HIM.

I've been through this for five years with my father's neuropathy. We've taken him all over the country, and no one will confirm or deny our suspicions on what caused his problems. One doc has HINTED that he agrees with us, but that's all.

Best of luck!!!
Babs

I think you're right. I hadn't thought about the cardiologist refusing to admit to this. However as regards the hospital, there is a form that all patients are asked to fill out and return after a stay. I just thought maybe I could tell them in a nonthreatening way about my incident and suggest that they become the area's leader in assisting surgical patients with recovery using CPAP. My friend had a TKR in November in our city's #1 hospital. She took her machine which they allowed her to use in room, but the nurses came in and took it off because her oxygen level was too low. They didn't even know how to thread the oxygen tube through the mask. There is some real undereducation of SA and CPAP therapy in the medical profession. If it weren't for this forum, I'd know very little.

But, of course, no one is responsible for anything.

Jane

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