How to detect sleep apnea?

Sleep apnea syndrome is a very troublesome sleep respiratory disease, patients in the clinic is the main manifestation of the night sleep snoring with apnea and daytime sleepiness and this disease may also cause high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, diabetes and other complications, and even part of the patient will also be in the night of the sudden death, so the clinic in the diagnosis of this disease, what methods will be used?

First of all, a routine ENT examination must be carried out, the nasal cavity, pharyngeal cavity, throat and tongue are the parts that must be investigated, through which the doctor will be able to determine the patient's basic symptoms.

Secondly, the patient must cooperate with the doctor to carry out cranial X-ray examination, the main purpose of this examination is to locate the position of the hyoid bone and the length of the soft palate. It is an indicator of the obstruction of the bony structures of our upper airway and the need for surgical intervention, such as guiding the operation of the hyoid bone and so on.

The next step is to perform a ct and a magnetic **** vibration test, which allows the surgeon to visualize the sagittal and transverse diameters of the airway, as well as the thickness of the soft tissues, and then to assess the plane of obstruction, which can be used to provide an important basis for surgical and other therapeutic interventions.

Finally, the patient must cooperate with the doctor to carry out fiberoptic endoscopy, fiberoptic endoscopy is mainly to check the patient's body in the nasopharyngeal obstruction plane requires the patient to lie on the mattress above the continuous monitoring of six hours, the second morning can get a complete data, can identify whether the patient has central apnea or peripheral apnea, which is very important for the diagnosis of sleep apnea syndrome. very important for the diagnosis of sleep apnea syndrome.

These four tests can help patients diagnose sleep apnea syndrome, and each patient will have different clinical symptoms, so the test methods applied are also different, and require patients to go to the hospital and cooperate with the doctor to do a good job immediately after finding out that they have the relevant symptoms, and then according to the results of the test to determine the subsequent treatment plan.