fa بررسی ارتباط بین وقفه‌های تنفسی خواب و اینتوباسیون دشوار در سالمندان Nursing Review Articels <p><strong><em>Background and Objectives: </em></strong>Difficult intubation is one of the challenges for patients undergoing anesthesia that leads to severe complications and death. Obstructive sleep apnea is one of the factors that may be associated with difficult intubation. The present study was carried out to investigate the relationship between obstructive sleep apnea and difficult intubation in the elderly.</p> <p><strong><em>Materials and Methods:</em></strong> This cross- sectional study was conducted in 2015 from February to June on 175 elderly patients using convenience sampling method. In order to gather data Demographic form, Berlin questionnaire and Comark-Lehane Index were used. Data were analyzed by SPSS (version 18) Statistical software and Kolmogorov-Smirnov, independent t-test, Mann-Whitney-u, chi-square tests and Logistic Regression.</p> <p><strong><em>Results</em></strong><strong>:</strong> The mean age and SD of samples were 69.9<span dir="RTL">&plusmn;</span>9.3 years. There were 18 (26.9%) people with difficult intubation and 10 (9.3%) people with normal intubation at high risk of sleep apnea. The results of this study showed that there was a significant relationship between sleep apnea and difficult intubation, and the risk of sleep apnea in the elderly with difficult intubation was 3.6 times of those with normal intubation (p=0.002, OR=3.6, CI 95%= 1.5-8.9).</p> <p><strong><em>Conclusion:</em></strong> There is a relationship between obstructive sleep apnea and difficult intubation in the elderly. Therefore, a screening procedure to identify the elderly at high risk of sleep apnea that are candidate for anesthesia seems to be necessary.</p> Obstructive sleep apnea, Intubation, Elderly 54 62 http://nmcjournal.zums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-400-1&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 mohammad farajzadeh محمد فرج زاده m.farajzadeh1987@gmail.com 10031947532846007888 10031947532846007888 Yes Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences دانشگاه علوم پزشکی کردستان meimanat hosseini میمنت حسینی meimanathosseini@yahoo.com 10031947532846007889 10031947532846007889 No Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences دانشکده پرستاری و مامایی دانشگاه شهید بهشتی تهران Fayegh yousefi فایق یوسفی mohammadfj1978@gmail.com 10031947532846007890 10031947532846007890 No Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences علوم پزشکی سنندج hamideh Hajnasiri حمیده حاج‌نصیری 10031947532846007891 10031947532846007891 No دانشکده پرستاری jamileh Salavati جمیله صلواتی 10031947532846007892 10031947532846007892 No علوم پزشکی سنندج