I will be having hernia surgery this Thursday and will be staying in the hospital for a few days. Should I bring my CPAP with me? I have been using it since June and I have been fine with it (now that I have a mask I like) so I am wondering if I will need it there. I am afraid it might get stolen there and if I am staying only a few days, do I really need it? My setting on it is 8.
Any thoughts?
Surgery & CPAP
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Surgery & CPAP
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Re: Surgery & CPAP
I'd take it... and tell the docs and nursing staff. You'll probably be on some pain meds which could make your AHI go a little crazy.
Re: Surgery & CPAP
My husband has taken his CPAP for all three of his surgeries and they used it while he was in surgery. I don't know how they do it, but they add the inhaled medications into the CPAP. I would talk to you your doctor before you go to let him/her know that you will be bringing it.
Good luck with your surgery.
Good luck with your surgery.
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Re: Surgery & CPAP
Hi - Oh my goodness - Now I'm a bit worried - I'm also going in for surgery - on the 20th (carpal ligament release and general arthritis in thumb) (not a long operation) - I did mention to the doctor about my sleepapnae and cpap therapy.(He wasn't worried !) Hope there is someone here that can tell us the right procedures with surgery ! ? ! Does it depend on the time duration of the surgery if you will need cpap ? Thanx - MarietjieCorgiGirl wrote:My husband has taken his CPAP for all three of his surgeries and they used it while he was in surgery. I don't know how they do it, but they add the inhaled medications into the CPAP. I would talk to you your doctor before you go to let him/her know that you will be bringing it.
Good luck with your surgery.
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Re: Surgery & CPAP
You MUST take it with you (for any surgery), and you must inform all the surgery and recovery staff that you need the CPAP after surgery. Show them how to use it (especially the nurses in recovery). Have a family member there just in case. Write "HAS OSA - NEEDS CPAP" on your forehead and arms in magic marker so you are sure they know it (just kidding).
Read the 3 posts under this topic in Our Collective Wisdom:
CPAP Safety, Warnings and Pitfalls:
* Sleep Apnea & CPAP Considerations for Surgery & Anesthetics (billboulton)
* How One Hospital Treats Sleep Disordered Breathing Patients for Surgery (by flyg
* Important information on OSA and Surgery (submitted by flygal6)
In case you are wondering why it's necessary to use your CPAP after surgery, here's an excerpt from the 2nd post:
Read the 3 posts under this topic in Our Collective Wisdom:
CPAP Safety, Warnings and Pitfalls:
* Sleep Apnea & CPAP Considerations for Surgery & Anesthetics (billboulton)
* How One Hospital Treats Sleep Disordered Breathing Patients for Surgery (by flyg
* Important information on OSA and Surgery (submitted by flygal6)
In case you are wondering why it's necessary to use your CPAP after surgery, here's an excerpt from the 2nd post:
I'll and tell you how we deal with patients with a history of sleep apnea or have certain risk factors which make them more at risk after having anesthesia and then narcotics for pain relief.....
...But another critical part of my job is to also control your pain from the surgery....we do this by giving narcotics (like in the article) We closely monitor all patients, but use special caution in our OSA patients. We then assess how the patients have responded and collaborate with anesthesia and the surgeon on deciding if the patient need continued close monitoring in our intermediate care unit (like an ICU step down unit) or maybe they are doing well enough to go to a regular post-op unit, but we then send them with central telemetry monitoring with oxygen saturation monitoring as well.
Had the patient in the article had this type of monitoring post op, the fatality possibly could have been avoided. Where I see the problem laid in the woman in the article, was not only a lack of communication between the surgeon and anesthesia, but also no special monitoring was done on the floor while the patient was in that first critical 24hr period when you are still blowing off anesthesia gases and then also on narcotics.
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