A coroner has highlighted the importance of using CPAP and oxygen monitoring immediately after surgery to correct severe obstructive sleep apnea, in the case of a man who died from complications of hypoxia. The Tasmanian coroner investigated the death of a 50-year-old man who developed deadly multiple pulmonary thromboemboli in the weeks after surgery to ...
Interventional procedures
Lack of CPAP a factor in death of patient after OSA surgery: coroner
By Tessa Hoffman
22 Feb 2018