Sleep and breathing disorders
Symposium
Sleep apnoea: is it time for new therapies?
Clinical
Aims : to describe new treatment alternatives to continuous positive airway pressure. New pathophysiological phenotyping studies of upper airway function in obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) have opened the way to new treatment strategies. This session will examine these new possibilities and thereby provide an overview on the current and future developments in the treatment of OSA.
Target audience :
Trainee, Adult pulmonologist/Clinician, Clinical researcher, Physiologist
Methods :
Physiology
Chairs
R. Riha
Edinburgh (Edinburgh)
(United Kingdom)
08:30
The physiological phenotypes of OSA - the PALM scale approach
D. Eckert(Randwick (NSW), Australia)
CoI
1910
09:00
Can we use drugs to modulate upper airway function in OSA?
L. Taranto Montemurro(Chestnut Hill , United States of America)
CoI
1911
09:30
Hypoglossal nerve stimulation
O. Vanderveken(Edegem (Antwerp), Belgium)
CoI
1912
10:00
Mandibular advancement devices - short- and long-term effects
M. Marklund(Umea, Sweden)
CoI
1913
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