RERA stands for which concept?

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RERA stands for which concept?

RERA stands for Respiratory Effort-Related Arousal. It describes an arousal from sleep that is triggered by increasing respiratory effort rather than by a full breathing pause. On a sleep study, you’ll see a sequence of breaths lasting at least about 10 seconds with progressively greater airway effort that ends with an arousal, but the airflow does not meet the criteria for an apnea or a hypopnea. This distinguishes RERAs from apneas or hypopneas and explains sleep fragmentation in patients who don’t quite meet the thresholds for those events. The other phrasing in the options isn’t used in standard terminology, since the established term specifically emphasizes the escalating effort causing the arousal.

RERA stands for Respiratory Effort-Related Arousal. It describes an arousal from sleep that is triggered by increasing respiratory effort rather than by a full breathing pause. On a sleep study, you’ll see a sequence of breaths lasting at least about 10 seconds with progressively greater airway effort that ends with an arousal, but the airflow does not meet the criteria for an apnea or a hypopnea. This distinguishes RERAs from apneas or hypopneas and explains sleep fragmentation in patients who don’t quite meet the thresholds for those events. The other phrasing in the options isn’t used in standard terminology, since the established term specifically emphasizes the escalating effort causing the arousal.

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