Positional therapy, consequences for and implementation in obstructive sleep apnea guidelines

Abstract

There are many national guidelines on diagnosis and treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) across the world, such as the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) guideline, the Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS) guideline, the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) guideline, the Finnish national guideline, the German Society of Ear-Nose-Throat, Head-Neck Surgery (DG HNO KHC) guideline and the Dutch Institute for Health Care (CBO) guideline [1”“6].