comorbidities, the urgency and nature of the surgery, the anticipated
need for high-dose opioids, and the availability of post-operative mon-
itoring for opioid-related adverse events.
• Advise high-risk patients to consider diagnosis and treatment.
Finally, advise patients identified as high risk to tell their primary care
physicians, so they can be further evaluated. OSA is associated with
numerous poor outcomes, including risk of death, cardiovascular
events and average number of days hospitalized, and treatment appears
to improve these outcomes. It's important to have a clear diagnosis for
patients with OSA to have ongoing, long-term management.
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