Control of Breathing During Sleep and Anesthesia

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Opening Remarks....Pages 1-2
Sleep as a Physiological Phenomenon....Pages 3-3
Heavy Snorers Disease....Pages 5-18
Hypoxemia during Sleep....Pages 19-28
The Upper Airway Muscles: Their Role in Sleep-Related Respiratory Dysrhythmias....Pages 29-37
Effectiveness and Side-Effects of Nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Therapy in 66 Patients with Sleep Apnea....Pages 39-42
The Influence of Obesity on Disordered Breathing in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome....Pages 43-46
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorders (COPD) and Sleep....Pages 47-47
Polysomnographic Findings in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)....Pages 49-53
High and Fluctuating Muscle Nerve Sympathetic Activity in the Sleep Apnea Syndrome: A Pathogenetic Mechanism in the Development of Hypertension?....Pages 55-59
Cephalometry for Evaluation of Geometry of the Upper Airway....Pages 61-64
The Clinical Relevance of very Severe Pure Diaphragm Weakness....Pages 65-65
Cardiac Involvement in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome, (OSAS) — Case Report....Pages 67-71
Respiratory Patterning and Arterial Oxygenation during Sleep in Laryngectomised Patients....Pages 73-75
Vagal Reactivity During Sleep: Study of the Oculocardiac and the Hering — Breuer Reflex in Preterms....Pages 77-81
Resumption of Ventilation at the End of Obstructive Sleep Apneas is not Determined by Diaphragmatic Fatigue....Pages 83-87
The Effect of Chronic Pulmonary Denervation on the Pattern of Breathing during Sleep in Man....Pages 89-94
Conchoplasty in the Treatment of the Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome....Pages 95-96
The Effects of Adeno- and Tonsillectomy in Children with Sleep Apnea Syndrome....Pages 97-98
Surgery Therapy for Obstructive Sleep Apnea — Present and Future....Pages 99-103
Anesthesia and Central Nervous System....Pages 105-106
Respiration and Anesthesia....Pages 107-110
Control of Breathing by Neuropeptides....Pages 111-117
Neurotransmission and Neuromodulation Involved in the Control of Respiration....Pages 119-131
The Control of Breathing Movements in the Fetus....Pages 133-139
Pathophysiology of the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome....Pages 141-147
Depression of Excitatory Amino Acid Neurotransmitters in Brain During Carbon Dioxide Narcosis, Anesthesia, and Hypoxia: Glutamic Acid and Aspartic Acid....Pages 149-153
Respiratory Actions of Cholecystokinin and Its Interaction with Opioids at the Brainstem Level....Pages 155-158
Influence of the Neurohormones: Human Corticotropin Releasing Factor (hCRF), Thyrotropin Releasing Hormone (TRH), Adrenocorticotropic Hormone (ACTH) on Ventilation in Humans....Pages 159-162
Tube Breathing under General Anaesthesia....Pages 163-166
Effects of Enflurane on the Ventilatory Response to Increased Carbon Dioxide and Metabolic Rate in Dogs....Pages 167-171
Effects of Changes in Inspiration Volume and Flow Rate on Respiratory Activity....Pages 173-175
Excitatory Effects of Electrical and Chemical Stimulation of the Botzinger Complex on Expiratory Activity in the Cat....Pages 177-181
Trigeminal Nerve, Breathing and Sleep Apnea....Pages 183-186
Lateralized Response of the Hypoglossal, Facial and Phrenic Nerves to Lung Inflation....Pages 187-192
Laryngeal Contribution to Respiratory Pattern in Anesthetized Rabbits....Pages 193-196
Propriospinal Inspiratory Neurons in the Upper Cervical Spinal Cord of the Rabbit: Location and Efferent Spinal Projections....Pages 197-201
Spectral Analysis of Breathing Pattern in Man during Exercise....Pages 203-206
Disturbed Patency of the Upper Airway and Its Consequences....Pages 207-208
The Vagus Nerve and the Control of Breathing during Postnatal Development....Pages 209-215
Neural Mechanisms That Lead to Apnea....Pages 217-226
Comparison of the Importance of Mechanisms Taking Part in the Self-Regulation of Breathing....Pages 227-237
Closing Remarks....Pages 239-239
Back Matter....Pages 241-246