Obstructive respiratory events during procedural sedation and analgesia: Another WHY to routinely screen for sleep apnea before catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation

Dominik Linz; Benedikt Linz; Marloes Homberg; Esther Bouman; Dobromir Dobrev; Jeroen M Hendriks; Sami O Simons

doi:10.1016/j.ijcha.2021.100783

Obstructive respiratory events during procedural sedation and analgesia: Another WHY to routinely screen for sleep apnea before catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation

Int J Cardiol Heart Vasc. 2021 May 24:33:100783. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcha.2021.100783. eCollection 2021 Apr.

Authors

Dominik Linz^{1

2

3

4}, Benedikt Linz⁴, Marloes Homberg⁵, Esther Bouman⁵, Dobromir Dobrev^{6

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8}, Jeroen M Hendriks^{3

9}, Sami O Simons^{10

11}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University Medical Center and Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
² Department of Cardiology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
³ Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders, University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia.
⁴ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
⁶ Institute of Pharmacology, West German Heart and Vascular Center, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
⁷ Montréal Heart Institute and Research Center, University de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
⁸ Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA.
⁹ Caring Futures Institute, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
¹⁰ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
¹¹ NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.

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