Doufas AG

ORCID: 0000-0003-2309-8365 · 2 papers in corpus

observational 2025

Association between preoperative obstructive sleep apnea diagnosis and prolonged postoperative opioid use among patients undergoing common surgical procedures

Regional anesthesia and pain medicine ·doi:10.1136/rapm-2025-106674

BACKGROUND: Identifying modifiable patient-related risk factors may guide interventions aimed at reducing prolonged postoperative opioid use. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has been hypothesized as one such condition. However, the associatio…

meta-analysis 2012

Concordance of sleep and pain outcomes of diverse interventions: an umbrella review

PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040891

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Pain influences sleep and vice versa. We performed an umbrella review of meta-analyses on treatments for diverse conditions in order to examine whether diverse medical treatments for different conditions have similar o…