CPAP adherence in patients with obstructive sleep apnea

This Grand Round presented by Dr Amanda Sathyapala focuses on CPAP adherence in patient with obstructive sleep apnea.

• Definition of adherence
• Non-adherence patient have poorer outcomes
• Many patients are non-adherence
• What works to improve CPAP adherence?
• The ‘internal’ things
• Practical ‘internal’ things
• What works and what does not work (alone)
• Patient views
• Illness/treatments/ self-belief after starting a treatment are key
• Retrospective data analysis

Amanda Sathyapala (previously Natanek) is a consultant respiratory physician, and clinical lead of the home ventilation service, at Harefield Hospital and a senior lecturer in the airways disease section of the National Heart and Lung Institute of Imperial College London. Dr Sathyapala’s clinical expertise includes respiratory failure, particularly chronic ventilatory failure requiring non-invasive ventilation, as a result of conditions such as COPD, bronchiectasis, chest wall disease, lung fibrosis, or following surgery.