Sairam Parthasarathy, MD, on Reducing Rehospitalization of Patients With HF and SDB

Sairam Parthasarathy, MD, discusses positive airway pressure use among patients with sleep-disordered breathing and congestive heart failure, and how clinicians can reduce the rehospitalization rates among this patient population.

Sairam Parthasarathy, MD, is a professor of medicine at the University of Arizona; chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the University of Arizona; director of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Sciences at University of Arizona Health Sciences; and medical director of the Center for Sleep Disorders at the Banner – University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona.

Additional Reading:

• Parthasarathy S. PAP use in patients with sleep-disordered breathing in congestive heart failure. Paper presented at: SLEEP 2019; June 8-12, 2019; San Antonio, TX. https://sleepmeeting.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/SLEEP_42_S1-Website-Final.pdf. Accessed June 17, 2019.