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2. What Is Sleep Apnea? Your Complete Guide - AOL

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   A CPAP machine is the most common sleep apnea treatment. It delivers continuous air pressure as you inhale and exhale. Auto-adjusting positive airway pressure (APAP) machine.

3. Sleep apnea - Wikipedia

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   These devices can be fabricated by a general dentist. Oral appliance therapy (OAT) is usually successful in patients with mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea. [102] [103] While CPAP is more effective for sleep apnea than oral appliances, oral appliances do improve sleepiness and quality of life and are often better tolerated than CPAP. [103]

4. Colin Sullivan (physician) - Wikipedia

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   Sullivan began studying sleep apnea in the late 1970s. In 1981 he published a design for the first CPAP machine in The Lancet. He helped make CPAP machines and masks by hand in a workshop at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital for the treatment of patients at the world's first sleep apnea clinic at the university. Over 100 patients were being ...

5. He found a simple, no-cost solution to his ‘wicked sleep apnea’

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   Two weeks later, they told me I had “high-moderate” sleep apnea and needed to acquire a continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machine, at a cost of about $600.

6. Continuous positive airway pressure - Wikipedia

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   CPAP is the most effective treatment for moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea, in which the mild pressure from the CPAP prevents the airway from collapsing or becoming blocked. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] CPAP has been shown to be 100% effective at eliminating obstructive sleep apneas in the majority of people who use the therapy according to the ...

7. Recall: Popular Sleep Apnea Machines Linked to Over 500 Deaths

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   CPAP and BiPAP machines are both worn at night to help those with sleep apnea. Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that previously recalled sleep apnea machines have ...