Patent ID: 8333696

Claim:
A system for predicting risk for perioperative complications comprising: a user device for receiving a set of risk factors to determine perioperative complications for a patient including patient data useful to determine the likelihood and severity of sleep apnea; an acquisition module to receive data from a sleep apnea sleep study of the patient, the data from the sleep apnea study including data collected while the patient was positioned in multiple sleep positions including a supine position; a determination module to determine the severity of sleep apnea for the patient; and an analysis module having a predictive model that incorporates one or more prediction equations for predicting perioperative complications derived from one or more databases having multiple patient data relevant to predict perioperative complications, the analysis module configured to apply the one or more prediction equations to the set of risk factors and the severity of sleep apnea for the patient in order to identify and report the likelihood of perioperative complication risks of that patient.