apnoeic BrE
apneic AmE

Apneic patients can regain spontaneous respiration in their second to third week of life.

In 1959, Frumin described the use of apneic oxygenation during anesthesia and surgery.

It took the best efforts of 15 people to release the choke hold on the blue, apneic, note-writing consultant."

With sleep apnea, your breathing while you are asleep is interrupted by repeated pauses known as apneic events.

A sleep study is done in a hospital setting using monitors that can detect the number of apneic episodes that occur.

Apneic oxygenation is more than a physiologic curiosity.

Several reports indicate that no more than 7 percent of the victims of the syndrome were noted to have prolonged apneic episodes before dying.

Sleep apnea, in which a person regularly stops breathing during sleep for 10 seconds or longer (apneic episodes).

This phenomenon (apneic oxygenation) is explained as follows:

In one single night, suffers may experience up to 350 'apneic events' and usually find themselves waking up sweaty, with a dry mouth and headache.

Sleep apnea refers to repeated episodes of not breathing during sleep for at least 10 seconds (apneic episodes).

Simple tactile stimulation by touching the skin or patting the infant may stop an apneic episode by raising the infant's level of alertness.

Neonatal benzodiazepine withdrawal may include hypotonia, reluctance to suck, apneic spells, cyanosis, and impaired metabolic responses to cold stress.

Home oximetry, however, does not measure apneic events or respiratory event-related arousals and thus does not produce an AHI value.

When the airways spasm or constrict in response to the irritating stimulus of the breathing tube, it is difficult to maintain the airway and the patient can become apneic.

Many studies indicate the effect of a "fight or flight" response on the body that happens with each apneic event is what increases health risks and consequences in OSA.

Typically, seizures start between one and four months in 90% of cases with abnormal eye movements and apneic episodes preceding the onset of seizures in some cases.

However, because of the limitations described above, apneic oxygenation is inferior to extracorporal circulation using a heart-lung machine and is therefore used only in emergencies and for short procedures.

However, under special circumstances such as hypothermia, hyperbaric oxygenation, apneic oxygenation (see below), or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, much longer periods of apnea may be tolerated without severe consequences.

In newborns, hypoglycemia can produce irritability, jitters, myoclonic jerks, cyanosis, respiratory distress, apneic episodes, sweating, hypothermia, somnolence, hypotonia, refusal to feed, and seizures or "spells."

Within this context, the definition of an apneic event depends on several factors (e.g. patient's age) and account for this variability through a multi-criteria decision rule described in several, sometimes conflicting, guidelines.

A possible acceptable risk would be a history of febrile seizures in infancy, apneic spells or seizures attendant to acute illness such as encephalitis and meningitis, all without recurrence without medication.

Because the exchange of gases between the blood and airspace of the lungs is independent of the movement of gas to and from the lungs, enough oxygen can be delivered to the circulation even if a person is apneic.

But Dr. Winn did not use the tube when the operation began or as it proceeded, when, according to the attending nurse's clinical notes, the patient began to appear "cyanotic" (he was turning blue) and "apneic" (he was not breathing).

After one hour of apneic oxygenation through a needle cricothyrotomy, one can expect a PaCO of greater than 250 mm Hg and an arterial pH of less than 6.72, despite an oxygen saturation of 98% or greater.