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Goal Directed Therapies for Asthma
1. Goal Directed Therapies
for Asthma
Ira M. Cheifetz, MD, FCCM, FAARC
Professor of Pediatrics
Chief, Pediatric Critical Care
Medical Director, PICU & Peds Resp Care
Duke Children’s Hospital
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3. What is Asthma?
Acute and chronic inflammatory disorder of
the airways and epithelium
Most common respiratory disease of children
Affects between 7-10% of the pediatric
population
Asthma triad: smooth muscle spasm
(bronchoconstriction), airway edema
(inflammation), airway plugging (mucous
formation)
5. Inflammatory Mediators
♦ Cytokines are one category of mediators
that play a significant role in the chronic
inflammatory process in asthma
♦ The products are associated with WBCs,
mast cells, & other lung airway cells
♦ Mediators induce broncho-constriction,
edema and mucus secretion
8. Pathophysiology
♦ Hyperinflation
– obstructed small airways cause premature
airway closure
– air trapping and hyperinflation
♦ Hypoxemia
– inhomogeneous distribution of affected areas
results in V/Q mismatch
10. Why do children wheeze?
Increased airway resistance / airway narrowing
Derived from Poiseuille’s equation, resistance is
proportional to 1/radius 44
In small airways, very minor changes in airway
diameter significantly alter airflow
The increased ‘turbulence’ in the narrowed
airways generates the high-pitched noise of
wheezing
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12. All that wheezes is NOT asthma!
♦ Other causes of wheezing:
– bronchiolitis
– cystic fibrosis
– gastroesophageal reflux
– chronic lung disease of infancy (BPD)
– primary ciliary dyskinesia
– anatomic abnormalities
• tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF)
• vascular ring
• bronchomalacia
13. Clinical Presentation
Cough
Wheezing
Increased work of breathing
Anxiety
Restlessness
Oxygen desaturation
14. Basic Treatment Principles
Standard therapy remains focused on
bronchodilators, anti-inflammatory agents,
and mucus thinning agents as needed
Systemic or inhaled corticosteroids remain
the most effective agents for symptomatic
control of asthma
Other agents include long-acting
bronchodilators, leukotriene-modifiers,
theophylline, heliox, magnesium, and inhaled
anesthetics
15. Basic Treatment Principles
Children present difficulties in drug delivery:
– small airways and rapid respiratory rate
– nose breathers
– aversion to things on the face (masks)
– lack of cooperation/fussiness & crying
With training and consistency, children adapt
and will cooperate with nebulized meds.
16. Treatment Hierarchy: Step 1
♦ Oxygen
♦ Inhaled short acting beta-agonists
- intermittent vs. continuous
- effective dosing is based on minute
ventilation – not mg/kg dosing
♦ Corticosteroids
- oral vs. parenteral
♦ Ipratropium?
19. Laminar Gas Flow
Laminar gas flow is more efficient
than turbulent gas flow.
Poiseuille’s Law:
Flow rate = P r4
8l
Independent of gas density.
So, does heliox improve laminar gas
flow and, if so, how?
20. Reynold’s Number
Re =
VD
Re > 4000 = turbulent flow
Re < 2100 = laminar flow
Densities:
O2 = 1.43, N2 = 1.25, He = 0.18
Heliox is more likely to yield a lower
Reynold’s number and improved gas
21. Turbulent Gas Flow
Occurs in constricted passages
Flow rate = k P
gas density yields gas flow.
Heliox improves turbulent gas flow.
22. Gas Flow
Forced
expiratory flow
rates in healthy
infants
Davis, J Appl Physiol, 1999.
30. Late-stage Asthma
♦ Impending respiratory failure
– altered level of consciousness
– inability to speak
– inability to protect airway
– absent breath sounds
– central cyanosis
– diaphoresis
– inability to lie down
– marked pulsus paradoxus
31. Avoid intubation, if possible….
♦ An ETT cannot stent open the smaller
airways, where the problem is.
♦ Positive pressure ventilation overdistends
airways and making air trapping worse
♦ Asthma is a disease of exhalation – not
inhalation!
♦ Intubate based on the patient’s clinical
appearance and indicators of pending
respiratory failure
34. Other Considerations
Oxygen
– Asthma is primarily a disease of ventilation
– Significant oxygen requirement occurs with
severe asthma with resultant V/Q mismatch,
esp. if asthma is coupled with pneumonia
Antibiotics
– Generally not indicated as most infectious
precipitants of asthma exacerbations are viral
– Consider coverage for mycoplasma
SIADH: may be present in severe asthma
35. Natural History of Peds Asthma
Transient early Non-atopic IgE-associated
Wheezing Prevalence
wheezers wheezers wheeze/asthma
0 3 6 11
Age (Years)