This Grand Round presented by Dr Amanda Sathyapala focuses on CPAP adherence in patient with obstructive sleep apnea.
Dr Amanda Sathyapala Background
Dr Amanda Sathyapala is a consultant respiratory physician, and clinical lead of the home ventilation service at Harefield hospital.
She is also a senior lecturer in the airways disease section of the National Heart and Lung Institute of Imperial College London.
Her 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. She also specialises in diagnosis and management of respiratory muscle weakness as well as sleep-disordered breathing, such as obstructive sleep apnoea and obesity hypoventilation syndrome.
She is one of only a few respiratory physicians delivering cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia.
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