LMCC Review Lecture Pediatric Respiratory Medicine

1. LMCC Review LecturePediatric Respiratory Medicine Joe Reisman MD, FRCP(C), MBA Pediatric Respirologist Department of Pediatrics Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa

3. Normal Respiratory Rates Age Respiratory Rate (breaths/min) Neonates 30-60 Infant 20-50 1 yr 20-40 2 yr 20-35 3 yr 15-30 Adolescent 12-18

4. Asthma Definition • Asthma is characterized by paroxysmal or persistent symptoms such as dyspnea, chest tightness, wheezing, sputum production and cough associated with variable airflow limitation and hyperresponsiveness to endogenous or exogenous stimuli • Inflammation key to underlying mechanism for development and persistence of Asthma

8. Infections Bronchiolitis Respiratory viruses Pertussis Sinusitis Inflammatory Asthma Tuberculosis Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Cystic Fibrosis “Not All that Wheezes is Asthma”Differential Diagnosis

9. Aspiration Gastroesophageal reflux Palatopharyngeal dyscoordination Foreign body Congenital Malformations Vascular rings Congenital cysts etc. Miscellaneous Congestive heart failure Vocal chord adduction Psychogenic causes “Not All that Wheezes is Asthma”Differential Diagnosis

10. Clinical Features suggestive of an alternative diagnosis to asthma History Symptoms presenting in neonatal period Requirement of ventilation in newborn period Wheeze associated with feeding or vomiting Sudden onset of cough/choking Steatorrhea Stridor

11. Clinical features suggestive of an alternative diagnosis to asthma Physical Examination Failure to thrive Significant heart murmur Clubbing Unilateral signs

12. Clinical features suggestive of an alternative diagnosis to asthma Investigations No reversibility of airflow obstruction with bronchodilator Focal, persistent or atypical radiographic findings

13. Making the Diagnosis • History, Physical, Supporting Investigations • History of recurrent episodes of cough, wheeze, shortness of breath, chest tightness • Evidence of Atopy (history, physical, eosinophilia, family history) • Evaluate and exclude alternate diagnoses • Pulmonary function testing (6 years and older) • FEV1 and response to bronchodilator Response to Therapeutic Trial • Short-acting bronchodilators • Anti-inflammatory agents

14. Early Onset, Transient Non-Atopic Outgrown in approximately 60% children Early Onset, Persistent Associated with Atopy Personal Atopy Family History of Atopy Types of Asthma in Young Children

15. Guideline Recommendations regarding Diagnosis • 1. Physicians must obtain appropriate patient and family history to assist them in recognizing the heterogeneity of wheezing phenotypes in pre-school aged children (Level III) • 2. In children unresponsive to asthma therapy, physicians must exclude other pathology that might suggest an alternative diagnosis (Level IV) • 3. The presence of atopy should be determined because it is a predictor of persistent asthma (Level III)

16. Determination of Asthma Severity and Control • Severity may only be able to be determined once adequate asthma control is achieved • Asthma control should be assessed on a regular basis (continuity of care) • Base assessment of control on following criteria

17. Criteria for Determining whether Asthma is Controlled

18. Therapeutic Goals • Achieve and maintain acceptable asthma control • If poor control, identify reasons • Environment • Education • Drug and Dose • Inhaler technique • Compliance issues • Once good control is achieved, gradually reduce medication to minimum that maintains control, and reassess over time

19. General Management of Asthma • If control is inadequate, reason or reasons should be identified, maintenance therapy should be modified • Any new treatment should be considered a therapeutic trial and its effectiveness should be assessed after 4-6 weeks • Inhaled corticosteroids should be introduced as initial maintenance therapy (Level I) even when patient reports symptoms fewer than 3 times per week • Although less effective than low dose ICSs, (Level I) LTRAs are alternative if patient can not or will not use ICSs (Level II) • If control is inadequate on low-dose ICSs, assess reasons for poor control and consider additional therapy with long-acting B2-agonists or LTRAs (Level I). • Severe asthma may require systemic corticosteroids • Asthma control and maintenance must be assessed regularly

20. Frequent Reasons for Poor Asthma Control • Insufficient patient education in terms of what asthma is, and how it is controlled • Insufficient use of objective measures of airflow obstruction (PEF, FEV1), leading to over- or underestimation of asthma control • Misunderstanding regarding role and side effects of medications • Overuse of B2-agonists • Insufficient use of anti-inflammatory agents, including intermittent use, inadequate use, or lack of use • Inadequate assessment of patient adherence • Lack of continuity of care

21. Regularly assess: • Control • Triggers • Compliance • InhalerTechnique • Co-morbidity Asthma Therapy Pred Adjust maintenance therapy Add-on therapy Inhaled Corticosteroids Fast-acting bronchodilator on demand Environmental control Education, Written action plan, and Follow-up Severe Moderately Severe Moderate Very mild Mild

22. First Line Maintenance Therapy • Physicians should recommend inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) as the best option for anti-inflammatory therapy monotherapy for childhood asthma (Level I) • There is insufficient evidence to recommend leukotriene receptor antagonists (LTRAs) as first-line monotherapy for childhood asthma (Level I). For children who can not or will not use ICSs, LTRAs represent an alternative (Level II)

23. ICS Benefits (Budesonide) • Clinical measures of control strongly favored Budesonide over Placebo • Symptoms • Rescue medication use and prednisone courses • Episode-free days • Hospitalizations and urgent care • Initiation of beclomethasone or additional asthma medication CAMP Study, NEJM Oct 13, 2000

24. Growth Effects of Budesonide Budesonide growth effect • Led to limited, small, and apparently transient reduction in growth velocity • Projected final height by bone age similar to Placebo

25. ICS Safety Other safety issues for Budesonide • No adverse effect on bone density • No association with cataracts • No adverse effect on sexual maturation • No adverse effect on psychological growth

26. Add-on Therapies • Long-acting B2-agonists are not recommended as maintenance monotherapy for asthma (Level I) • After reassessment of compliance, control of environment and diagnosis, if asthma is not optimally controlled with low doses of ICSs, therapy should be modified by the addition of a long-acting B2-agonist (Level I) • Alternatively, addition of an LTRA or increasing to a moderate dose of ICS may be considered (Level1)

27. Inhalation Devices • At each contact, health care professionals should work with patients and their families on inhaler technique (Level I) • When prescribing MDIs, physicians should recommend use of a valved spacer, with mouthpiece when possible, for all children (Level II) • Dry powder breath-actuated devices offer a simpler form of maintenance therapy in children over 5 years of age (Level IV) • Children tend to “auto-scale” their inhaled medication dose and the same dose of maintenance medication can be used at all ages for all medications (Level IV) • Physicians, educators and families should be aware that jet nebulizers are rarely indicated for the treatment of chronic or acute asthma (Level I)

28. Prevention Strategies for AsthmaPrimary Prevention • With conflicting data on early life exposure to pets, no general recommendations can be made with regard to pets for primary prevention of allergy and asthma (Level III). Families with bi-parental atopy should avoid having cats or dogs in the home (Level II) • There are conflicting and insufficient data for physicians to recommend for or against breastfeeding specifically for the prevention of asthma (Level III). Due to its many other benefits, breastfeeding should be recommended

29. Prevention Strategies for AsthmaSecondary Prevention • Health care professionals should continue to recommend the avoidance of tobacco smoke in the environment (Level IV) • For patients sensitized to house dust mites, physicians should encourage appropriate environmental control (Level V) • In infants and children who are atopic, but do not have asthma, data are insufficient for physicians to recommend other specific preventive strategies (Level II)

30. Our Patients and their Parents Still Smoke…..

31. 50% of Children with Asthma are Sensitive to House Dust Mite

32. Prevention Strategies for AsthmaTertiary Prevention • Allergens to which a person is sensitized should be identified (Level I), and a systematic program to eliminate, or at least to substantially reduce, allergen exposure in sensitized people should be undertaken (Level II)

33. EDUCATION

34. Education and Follow-up • Asthma control criteria should be assessed at each visit (Level IV). Measurement of pulmonary function, preferably by spirometry, should be done regularly (Level III) in adults and children over 6 years of age • Socioeconomic and cultural factors should be taken into account in designing asthma education programs (Level II). • School age children may benefit from education programs separate from their parents

42. OXYGEN

43. Asthma Rx

46. Differential Diagnosis of Croup • Epiglottitis • Bacterial Tracheitis • Foreign Body in Airway or Esophagus

47. Management of Croup • Avoid agitation as much as possible • Mild croup may be managed at home with p.o. fluids and humidity • Warn parents croup may be: • Worse at night • May clear in cold air outside

48. Management of Croup cont’d • Stridor at rest, moderate chest wall retractions, and an anxious, restless child are all indicators of moderate to severe disease and signal need for hospitalization • Nurse in Oxygen (usually 30-40%) • If concerned about degree of respiratory failure, arterial blood gas indicated

49. Management of Croup cont’d • Racemic epinephrine 0.5 mL of 2.25% solution in 3 mL normal saline by inhalation X 1 dose may provide relief • Effect may last 30-60 minutes; may repeat q1-2h • Dexamethasone 0.6 mg/kg (MAX: 12 mg) (PO, IM, IV) X 1 dose • A child who has received racemic epinephrine should be admitted for observation

50. Management of Croup cont’d • If there is a question of impending respiratory failure, obtain arterial blood gases • A rising respiratory rate correlates well with a falling PaO2 • Hypercapnea (rising PaCO2) occurs late in upper respiratory tract obstruction and is a sign of increasing respiratory failure