Treating Sleep Apnea With CPAP

Name: Treating Sleep Apnea With CPAP
Uploaded: 2024-04-13T15:00:29+00:00
Duration: 39 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Short YouTube monologue by Dr. Charles Mok explaining CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure): what the device is, how it's worn (nose, mouth, or…

13 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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Short YouTube monologue by Dr. Charles Mok explaining CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure): what the device is, how it's worn (nose, mouth, or both), and that modern machines are more compact and quieter. The speaker shares a personal adverse effect (dry mouth and facial soreness after use post-spinal surgery) and cites treatment statistics: about 1 in 4 people know they have sleep apnea, and only about 1 in 3 of those receive treatment; when treated, sleep apnea is generally managed with CPAP.

Questions this video answers

Continuous positive airway pressure.

Over the mouth, or the nose and mouth, or just the nose.

About 1 out of 3 of those who know they have sleep apnea receive treatment.

About 1 out of 4 people know they have sleep apnea.

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The standard is called a cpap continuous positive airway pressure. This is a device that goes over the mouth or the nose and mouth or just the nose, and helps force air in when you under breathe at night. So it's a little machine that's they used to be really kind of big and noisy. Now they're much more compact than we traveled with. I wore one once because I had a spinal surgery. It was made my mouth dry and my face was kind of sore. And it went away fortunately, because I had the surgery that my neck healed up, but it was unpleasant. So I'd be one of the people that didn't like to wear it. We know that of the 1 out of 4 people that do know they have sleep apnea, only 1 out of 3 of those actually get treated. So the incidence of treating sleep apnea is very low. When it is treated, it's generally with CPAP.