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Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a condition in which the breathing passage closes (fully or partially) during sleep, causing the patient to stop breathing. The body’s survival instinct responds to this lack of oxygen by arousing, sometimes just enough to breathe but not enough to fully wake, the patient.
