AAP放新版阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停治疗指南

《儿科学》(Pediatrics)8翌年27日撰写的新泽西州儿科学会(AAP)新版外科化疗概要同意，讫增殖腺扁桃体输卵管的阻塞性生理肺部暂停综合征(OSAS)病患应当开刀(Pediatrics 2012;130:576-84)。新版概要是由AAP的OSAS的委员会对1999~2008年撰写的3166篇相关期刊及2008~2011年撰写的概要类文章进讫研究课题后定下的。新版概要的部分重要同意如下：·对于轻度OSAS青少年病患，值得注意是不较难给与疗程或已给与疗程且残留阻塞性肺部暂停的病患，鼻内甲状腺激素给药可有利于缓解病症。·同意外科医生可如前所述进讫OSAS肾结石。可向青少年双亲询问几个问题。一是：孩子生理如何？二是：有打鼾现象吗？如有，则继续询问打鼾时是否伴有肺部困难。根据成果和病症，可对青少年进讫生理检查等进一步客观性评估。·同意表列病患在扁桃体输卵管后开刀：3岁表列；多导生理上图检查指引重度OSAS；OSAS心脏心肌梗死；发育衰退；肥胖；颅面畸形、神经关节疾病或当前肺部道感染。·如果扁桃体输卵管后OSAS征状和病症持续性存有，或如果尚未进讫扁桃体输卵管，则同意进讫持续性心肌湍流支架(CPAP)化疗。工作小组专业人士表示，CPAP是最佳的主干线化疗建议书。·如果青少年或青少年往往打鼾或符合OSAS病症和征状，则同意进讫多导生理上图检查或并转生理附属医院或眼科化疗。不过该同意尚未取得的委员会专业人士和审核医学学会的一致肯定，因为除此以外的医疗能源尚未能对每例病患都开展此项检查。而且研究课题推断，在50%的情况下，即使病症指引OSAS，生理检查结果仍可能为出现异常。因此，一个同前的同意是，如果尚未能进讫多导生理上图检查，可考虑进讫其他诊断性检查，如定时录像录制、定时血氧明度测、午睡多导生理上图检查或内科多导生理上图检查。工作小组专业人士声明与Philips Respironics等多家该公司存有既得利益关系。By: DOUG BRUNK, Clinical Neurology News Digital NetworkAn updated clinical practice guideline from the American Academy of Pediatrics spells out which children with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome who undergo adenotonsillectomy should be admitted as inpatients."That’s really important because the vast majority of children he adenotonsillectomy on an outpatient basis," said Dr. Carole L. Marcus, who chaired a subcommittee that assembled the guideline, which was updated from a 2002 version and published online Aug. 27 in Pediatrics.Courtesy Dr. Carole L. MarcusAnother new component of the 10-page guideline, titled "Diagnosis and Management of Childhood Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome," includes an option for clinicians to prescribe intranasal steroids for a subset of children with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS)."For children with mild obstructive sleep apnea – especially for those in whom surgery might be contraindicated, or in those who he already had surgery and he some residual obstructive apnea – intranasal steroids could be helpful," Dr. Marcus, who directs the Sleep Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said in an interview. "There are still a lot of unanswered questions [about this practice], one of the biggest being that all of the studies he been relatively short term, meaning weeks to months, not years. Does a child need just one course, or do they need to be on it for the rest of their lives? Those are studies that need to be done."To update the 2002 guideline, Dr. Marcus and 11 other members of the interdisciplinary AAP Subcommittee on Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome reviewed 3,166 articles from the medical literature related to the diagnosis and management of OSAS in children and adolescents that were published during 1999-2008. Then subcommittee members "selectively updated this literature search for articles published from 2008 to 2011 specific to guideline categories." Of the 3,166 studies, 350 were used to formulate eight recommendations, termed "key action statements" (Pediatrics 2012;130:576-84).Since publication of the previous guideline, "there has been a huge amount of research done in this field," noted Dr. Marcus, who is also a professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. "Many of the initial studies we looked at for the first guideline were case series. Now people are doing well-structured studies and looking at some of the detailed outcomes such as neurocognitive findings."The first recommendation in the updated guideline advises clinicians to screen for OSAS during routine health maintenance visits, "because OSA in children is underdiagnosed," Dr. Marcus explained. "Parents don’t necessarily think of snoring as a sign of a serious disease. They might think it’s funny, but it’s actually a sign of illness."Knowing how busy pediatricians are, there are two questions that are crucial," she continued. "One is, ‘How does your child sleep?’ The other is, ‘Does your child snore?’ If you get a positive [response] to the snoring [question] you do need to go into more detail. The next question would be, ‘Is there labored breathing with the snoring?’ Your history will tell you which children need further objective evaluation, such as a sleep study."The guideline also recommends that the following subset of children be admitted as inpatients after tonsillectomy: those younger than age 3; those with severe OSAS on polysomnography; those with cardiac complications of OSAS; those with failure to thrive; those who are obese; and those with craniofacial anomalies, neuromuscular disorders, or a current respiratory infection.Another component to the guideline is the recommendation that clinicians refer patients for continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) management if OSAS signs and symptoms persist after adenotonsillectomy or if adenotonsillectomy is not performed. Dr. Marcus described CPAP as "the best way to go as a second-line option. Since the previous guidelines came out, the prevalence of obesity in children has gone up even more dramatically. Therefore, there is a lot more OSA out there, and pediatricians will be seeing a lot more in children of all ages."One component of the guideline related to polysomnography proved difficult for the committee members and the consulting medical societies to reach consensus on. This recommendation states that clinicians should obtain a polysomnogram or refer the patient to a sleep specialist or otolaryngologist if the child or adolescent snores regularly or meets the symptoms and signs of OSAS."If one agrees that sleep studies are the only objective way to tell what’s going on, we just don’t he the resources in this country to study every child," Dr. Marcus said. "The literature is very strong showing that a history and physical exam could give you an idea of which children you should he an index of suspicion about, but do not tell you which children he sleep apnea. The vast number of children who he adenotonsillectomy for suspected OSA are hing it done without any sort of objective finding. The studies that he been done show that about 50% of the time, even with a history that seems indicative of OSA, the children will he normal sleep studies."Because of this quandary, the committee included a related recommendation, which reads that if polysomnography is not ailable, "then clinicians may order alternative diagnostic tests, such as nocturnal video recording, nocturnal oximetry, daytime nap polysomnography, or ambulatory polysomnography."Dr. Marcus said that further changes to the new guideline may be warranted pending the results of the Childhood Adenotonsillectomy Study for Children With OSAS (CHAT). Sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the goal of this multicenter, randomized trial is to determine the effect of adenotonsillectomy surgery on OSAS in children. "That study has just been completed, but nothing has been published yet," said Dr. Marcus, who is one of CHAT’s investigators. "That might change things even more."There is a 44-page technical report that details the procedures the subcommittee members followed and the data they considered (Pediatrics 2012;130:e714-55).Dr. Marcus disclosed that she has received research support from Philips Respironics. Another subcommittee member, Dr. Did Gozal, disclosed hing research support from AstraZeneca and being a speaker for Merck.; Dr. Ann C. Halbower disclosed receiving research funding from Resmed; and Dr. Michael S. Schechter disclosed that he is a consultant to Genentech and Gilead, and that he has received research support from Mpex Pharmaceuticals, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and other companie