Frank Mitchell thought he'd seen it all in 30 years working ICU night shifts.
Heart attacks, strokes, respiratory failures - he'd handled every medical emergency you could imagine.
But on Tuesday, March 15th, 2023, at exactly 2:47 AM, Frank witnessed something that would revolutionize how we think about snoring forever.
Room 314 had a 52-year-old executive on a CPAP machine for severe sleep apnea. Standard protocol. Frank had seen thousands of these cases.
But something was wrong.
The CPAP was running perfectly - 15 cm H2O pressure, proper mask seal, zero leaks. Yet the patient was still snoring so loudly that nurses three rooms away were complaining.
"That shouldn't be possible," Frank muttered, staring at the monitors.
That's when he noticed something bizarre on the EMG (electromyography) readout...