anapnea
English
Etymology
an- + apnea
Noun
anapnea (uncountable)
- (medicine) Resumption of breathing after a period of halted respiration.
- 1997, Kazuo Chin, Masashi Hirai, Takanobu Kuriyama, Motonari Fukui, Kenshi Kuno, Yanosuke Sagawa, & Motoharu Ohi, “Changes in the arterial PCO2 during a Single Night's Sleep in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea.”, in Internal medicine, volume 36, number 7:
- Patients with anapnea-hypopnea index (AHI) of greater than ten events per hour were selected for this study.
- 2005 February, Xu Hong-zhen & Bai Lin, “Aspiration of gastric contents in pediatric anaesthesia: analysis of 49 cases”, in Chongqing Medical Journal:
- Arrest of anapnea or heartbeat happened in 2 cases.
- 2008 August, Zhang Jing, Chen Yong-liang, Chao Ji-hong, et al., “Coadministration of propofol and remifentanil eliminates awareness during continuous epidural anesthesia in patients undergoing operation”, in Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine:
- The anapnea, circulation, cerebral state index (CSI) and the Observer Assessment of Alertness/Sedation(OAA/S) score were assessed in 60 patients with abdominal operation patients, who underwent propofol and remifentanil target controlled infusion (TCI).
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