Randomised sham-controlled trial of transcutaneous electrical stimulation in obstructive sleep apnoea

Martino F Pengo; Sichang Xiao; Culadeeban Ratneswaran; Kate Reed; Nimish Shah; Tao Chen; Abdel Douiri; Nicholas Hart; Yuanming Luo; Gerrard F Rafferty; Gian Paolo Rossi; Adrian Williams; Michael I Polkey; John Moxham; Joerg Steier

doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-208691

Article info

PDF

Sleep

Original article

Randomised sham-controlled trial of transcutaneous electrical stimulation in obstructive sleep apnoea

Authors

Martino F Pengo Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK Guy's and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, Lane Fox Respiratory Unit/Sleep Disorders Centre, London, UK Department of Medicine (DIMED), University of Padua, Padua, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Sichang Xiao Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Culadeeban Ratneswaran Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK Guy's and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, Lane Fox Respiratory Unit/Sleep Disorders Centre, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Kate Reed Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Nimish Shah Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK Guy's and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, Lane Fox Respiratory Unit/Sleep Disorders Centre, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Tao Chen Division of Health and Social Care, King's College London, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Abdel Douiri Division of Health and Social Care, King's College London, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Nicholas Hart Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK Guy's and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, Lane Fox Respiratory Unit/Sleep Disorders Centre, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Yuanming Luo Department of Medicine (DIMED), University of Padua, Padua, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Gerrard F Rafferty Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Gian Paolo Rossi Department of Medicine (DIMED), University of Padua, Padua, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Adrian Williams Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK Guy's and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, Lane Fox Respiratory Unit/Sleep Disorders Centre, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Michael I Polkey NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
John Moxham Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Joerg Steier Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK Guy's and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, Lane Fox Respiratory Unit/Sleep Disorders Centre, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles

Correspondence to Dr Joerg Steier, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Lane Fox Unit/Sleep Disorders Centre, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9RT, UK; joerg.steier{at}gstt.nhs.uk

View Full Text

Citation

Pengo MF, Xiao S, Ratneswaran C, et al

Randomised sham-controlled trial of transcutaneous electrical stimulation in obstructive sleep apnoea

Thorax 2016;71:923-931.

Publication history

Received April 2, 2016
Revised June 22, 2016
Accepted June 23, 2016
First published July 19, 2016.

Online issue publication

September 01, 2022

Article Versions

Previous version (14 September 2016).
You are viewing the most recent version of this article.

Request permissions

If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

Copyright information

Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/ This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Log in using your username and password

Main menu

Log in using your username and password

You are here

Authors

Citation

Publication history

Article Versions

Request permissions

Copyright information

Read the full text or download the PDF:

Log in using your username and password