Results
A total of 1836 patients from ten observational studies were included.
There were 268 (15.4%) nasal surgeries, 738 palatopharyngeal surgeries
(42.4%) and 735 (42.2%) combined nasal and palatopharyngeal surgery.
The majority of patients had moderate to severe OSA. A total of 860
patients (49.8%) were successfully discharged as day cases. There were
no standard criteria for daycase surgery. Post-anaesthetic respiratory
events were reported in 86/1750 (4.9%) patients. Oxygen desaturation
was the most common respiratory event (83.7%, n = 72). There was no
mortality reported.