1. Sleep Apnea
Is a sleep disorder in which a person’s breathing is irregular, or pauses while sleeping.
Megan Murray and Katie Fulton

2. What is Sleep Apnea?
Breathing is interrupted by a block to the airflow causing an apnea which is a pause in breathing that can happen five to thirty times in an hour and can last anywhere from seconds to minutes.

3. Fatigue and day time sleepiness
Symptoms
Snoring
Fatigue and day time sleepiness
Impaired vision
Slower reaction time

4. How its Tested
Polysomnography: a formal sleep study that records biophysiological changes in sleep
Its monitors brain activity, eye movement, skeletal muscle activity, and heart rhythm.

5. Treatment Behavioral therapy Sleeping on one side
Automatic Positive Air Pressure Device (APAP)
Oral Appliance Therapy (OAT)
Surgical treatment: Correction of nasal passages and pharyngeal obstruction. Surgery is based on individual needs.

6. APAP Automatic Positive Air Pressure Device
It is a mask with a tube attached to a CPAP (Continuous Positive Air Pressure Device) machine.
Splints/opens the patients airway to allow pressurized air into the throat allowing them to breathe easier.

7. OAT Oral Appliance Therapy
An implant recommended by dentists,
which shifts the lower jaw forward opening the airway.

8. Who it Effects
Affects mainly older people, but sometimes can affect children with enlarged tonsils, and is common in overweight people.

9. Video