Respiratory Monitoring after Opioid-Sparing Bariatric Surgery in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)
Ahmed Hassan El-Sabbagh
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
PRODIGY score can be modified according to your study by adding some items to made it more significant for detection of patients at risk of OSA after bariatric surgery.
Did you recommend one measure or investigation to detec patients at risk of OSA after bariatric surgery.
Author Response
The English language was improved by suggestions from native English-speaking colleagues and proofreading with Computer programs. The language is now improved.
The aims of the paper are clearly re-stated in the Introduction
Reviewer 2 Report
1) Intoduction for abstract can be improved (line 11 & 12)
2) Abstract - please spell out first IRB (line 15) & CPAP (line 27)
3) Abstract - line 13 (OSA)
4) Methods - the name of the drugs should be written with small letter (line 122-123)
5) Methods - how do you come out the sample size = 80? Since Khanna's = 1335...a huge difference between this 2 studies
6) Results - line 171 - should be 77.5%
7) Results - Table 1 - please write in full sentences
8) Discussion - please standardize the references in the text, line 270 & line 275
Author Response
English is now improved.
The results are more clearly presented, especially in fig 2 legend.
References have been reviewed and are now corrected.
