Journal Reviews

Describing the most useful OSA assessment?

1 January 2017 | | sleep endoscopy, drug-induced sleep endoscopy, DISE, sleep nasendoscopy

This article sets out to comprehensibly describe drug induced sleep endoscopy and its role in determining the level of obstruction in patients with OSA. The advantages described include the fact that other techniques, including Muller’s manoeuvre, have significant variation in...

The Impact of sleep endoscopy for paediatric obstructive sleep-disordered breathing

1 May 2015 | | Sleep-disordered breathing, obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, snoring, drug-induced sleep endoscopy, polysomnography, children

Paediatric obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is not always resolved or improved with adenotonsillectomy. Persistent or complex cases of paediatric OSA may be due to sites of obstruction in the airway other than the tonsils and adenoids. Investigation of paediatric obstructive...