In obstructive sleep apnea, the airway repeatedly collapses during sleep causing sufferers to stop breathing briefly.
Eventually these functions will be impaired and you are likely to stop breathing and die.
Apnea testing measures how many times per hour you stop breathing while sleeping.
"We can use this to increase the safety of people who are under sedation after surgery by knowing if they stop breathing, " he says.
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Whooping cough can get make infants sick to the point that they may stop breathing and die, or they can have problems with brain damage, Shu said.
In reality, the taunting boy did not have a peanut, but Owen didn't know that -- he just knew that eating a peanut could make him stop breathing.
If you are very clear that you do not want to be resuscitated when you stop breathing, let the people where you live know what you want and put it in writing.
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Usually thought of as an adult disorder, sleep apnea in which children frequently stop breathing or have episodes of reduced airflow during sleep afflicts between 1% and 3% of children, though many doctors believe the number is greater.
Sleep apnea is a disorder that causes people to stop breathing momentarily and wake up as often as hundreds of times every night, leaving a lot of unexplained fatigue, irritability and millions of hours of lost productivity at the workplace.
This includes treatment for 80% of the 250, 000 to 350, 000 people who suffer from fatigue due to multiple sclerosis, and perhaps 200, 000 of the 12 million patients suffering from obstructive sleep apnea, a sleep disorder that causes a person to stop breathing during the night, but which also causes daytime sleepiness, says Cephalon spokeswoman Sheryl Williams.
On the tape, Kevorkian injects muscle relaxant into Youk's arm to stop his breathing, and then injects potassium chloride to stop his heart.
Kevorkian then hooks Youk to an EKG and injects muscle relaxant into Youk's arm to stop his breathing.
The infection can stop a baby breathing or lead to pneumonia, brain damage, weight loss and death.
On the Dumont, Faythe Vollrath subtly varied the tempo and rhythm of the 1728 Allemande to create a line that sounded like breathing, and Jake Street explored the stop-start comedy of the pecking chicken in "La Poule" (1728).
Above all, the deal provides a breathing-space in which an international effort to stop people dying of cold and hunger can be launched.
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