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AASM Membership Sections Newsletter
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Issue #7
American Academy of
Sleep Medicine
2014 – 2015
CHAIR
Christine Won, MD, MS
VICE-CHAIR
Katie Sarmiento, MD
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Chad Hagen, MD
John Park, MD
CHRISTINE WON, MD, MS
CHAIR
Dr. Christine Won, MD, MS,
Chair,
is
the Director of the Yale Sleep Center
and Director of Yale’s Women’s
Initiative in Sleep Health (WISH). She
is an active member of the AASM,
having recently served three years on
the AASM Education Committee and
on the CPAP Adherence Education
Task Force in 2010. She is active in
the local sleep community, serving
on the Board of Directors of the
Connecticut Sleep Society. She is an
Assistant Professor of Medicine in the
section of Pulmonary, Critical Care
and Sleep Medicine at Yale University,
and the Associate Program Director
for the Yale Pulmonary and Critical
Care fellowship program. Prior to
this she was an Assistant Professor
in the section of Pulmonary and
Critical Care at UCSF, and served as
their Associate Director for the Sleep
program. She completed her sleep,
pulmonary and critical care training
and undergraduate education at
Stanford University.
KATIE SARMIENTO, MD
VICE-CHAIR
Dr. Kathleen Sarmiento, MD,
Vice-
Chair
, is the Director of Pulmonary
Sleep Medicine at the VA San Diego
Healthcare System and an Assistant
Professor at the University of
California San Diego. She completed
her MD and MPHTM at Tulane
University and her training in Internal
Medicine, Pulmonary & Critical Care
and Sleep Medicine at the University
of Maryland School of Medicine.
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SLEEP RELATED BREATHING DISORDERS
MEETING AGENDA
Washington State Convention Center | Monday, June 8
th
| 5:15 pm – 6:15 pm
I.
Call to Order
II.
Introduction of the 2014-2015 Section Steering Committee- (5 minutes)
III.
Topics in the Field (Sleep Related Breathing Disorders specific
discussion)- (10 minutes)
IV.
Future Networking and Communication Ideas- (20 minutes)
V.
General Discussion/ Networking- (15 minutes)
VI.
Section Investigator Award Presentation- (10 minutes)
VII.
Adjournment
HEAR YE, HEAR YE! HAVE YOU HEARD?
RECENT FINDINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT.
Research in the field of sleep-related breathing disorder is flourishing and greatly
contributes to advancing our field. Constantly keeping up with the latest articles can
be challenging. To help in this endeavor, we have provided a brief synopsis of recent
relevant articles.
Camacho M, et al. The effect of nasal surgery on continuous positive airway
pressure device use and therapeutic treatment pressures: a systematic review and
meta-analysis. Sleep 2015;38(2):279-286.
This group conducted a systematic review of the literature to answer the question
of what happens to the final continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) pressure
and use after nasal surgery. To allow for detailed pooled analysis, they limited the
abstracted studies to those that reported quantitative outcomes data before and
after nasal surgery. In their analysis of 18 studies with 279 patients (though only
104 patients’ data were used to calculate surgery’s impact on CPAP pressure), mean
pressure decreased from 11.6 ± 2.2 (SD) cm H2O to 9.5 ± 2.0 cm H2O (P < 0.00001).
Although reduction in post-surgery CPAP pressure was decreased with all nasal
surgeries, the largest mean difference in final CPAP pressure was observed after
septoplasty with turbinoplasty (-2.6 cm H2O, 95% CI -3.33 to -1.87; P < 0.0001).
Furthermore, CPAP use improved from 38.7% to 90.2% (though it was not specified
on the definition of “use” other than to report “adherence, accepting, or tolerating”)
and from 3.0 ± 3.1 hours to 5.5 ± 2.0 hours, according to objective data (days used > 4
hours was not reported). Five patients did not require CPAP post-surgery.
