Obstructive Disease Flashcards
What is obstructive sleep apnea?
- Recurrent upper airway collapse during sleep
- causes ↓ or complete cessation of airflow
What 3 things will polysomnography recordings show?
- Apnea
- Hypopnea
- Respiratory effort-related arousals
What is the definition of apnea?
- 90% ↓ in amplitude of airflow signal
What are 3 classifications of apnea? How long do the episodes have to last?
- Obstructive
- Central
- Mixed
- Duration of 10 seconds or more
What is the definition of hypopnea?
- ↓ of 30% or 50% or more in amplitude of nasal presure that last for 90% or more of the breath
- Also has a 4% or greater ↓ in SpO2
What is the Apnea-hypopnea index (AHI)
- Number of apnea and hypopnea events per hour of sleep
What is respiratory effort-related arousals?
- A limitation in the airflow followed by an arousal on the EEG channel. (Flattening of the airflow in a way that does not meet the criteria for apnea or hypopnea)
- Duration of 10 seconds or more
How is sleep apnea or hypopnea diagnosed?
- If AHI ≥ 15
- If AHI ≥ 5 plus S/Sx or associated medical or psychiatric disorder such as HTN CAD CHF insomnia snoring etc
How is Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) diagnosed?
- AHI ≥ 5
- Daytime somnolence ≥ 2 days/week
What are the 3 severity levels of OSA?
- Mild → AHI 5-15
- Moderate → AHI 15-30
- Severe → AHI ≥ 30
What are the 3 direct physiologic mechanisms for Apnea/obstruction?
- Anatomic and functional upper airway obstruction
- ↓ respiratory-related EEG arousal response
- Unstable ventilatory response to chemical stimuli
How are apnea episodes resolved by the body?
- ↑ muscular activity at upper airway and thoracoabdominal respiratory muscles
- EEG arousal
What are some of the neurocognitive consequence of OSA?
- Slower EEG
- Sleep deprivation
- Sleepy in daytime
- ↓ cognition performance
- ↓ quality of life
- ↑ car accidents
What are some of the metabolic consequences of OSA?
- Hypoxic injury
- inflammation
- ↑ SNS activity
- Hormonal changes
- Insulin resistance / DM2
- central obesity
- Metabolic syndrome
What are the most common sites of upper airway obstruction?
- Retropalatal and retroglossal regions of the oropharynx
What are some signs that a patient may have an issue with airway obstruction?
- Bony craniofacial abnormalities
- Excess soft tissue
- Acromegaly thyroid enlargement and hypothyroidism
When will the airway collapse?
- When the forces that can collapse airway > than forces the dilate the airway
What are the collapsing forces of the airway?
- intraluminal negative inspiratory pressure
- extraluminal positive pressure
What are dilating forces on the airway?
- Pharyngeal dilating muscle tone
- longitudinal traction on upper airway d/t ↑ lung volume
When the patient is ________ airway obstruction is enhanced?
- Supine → supine enhances airway obstruction
Which patient position ↑ the effect of extraluminal positive pressure against the pharynx?
- Supine position
Altered neuromuscular control of the airway is related to what 2 things?
- Inflammatory infiltrates
- Denervation chagnes
Respiratory related arousal response is related to what 4 things?
- Hypercapnia
- Hypoxia
- Upper airway obstruction
- Work of breathing
What are som clinical symptoms of OSA/apnea?
- Day → dry mouth headache sleepy cognitive impairment
- Night → wake up often snoring choking sensation breathing pauses
What are some comorbidities associated with OSA?
- HTN
- CAD
- MI
- HF
- ESRD
- Graves disease
- DM2
What are some risk factors for OS?
- elderly
- Obesity
- non-caucasian
- male
- pregnant
- craniofacial abnormalities
- smoking
- narrow airway
What are some treatments for OSA?
- CPAP
- oral appliances
- Eletrical stim → stiimulates hypoglossal nerve (CN12) with every breath
- Weight reduction
- Surg
What are 4 surgeries that might help OSA?
- tonsillectomy
- maxillomandibular advancement
- ubulopalatopharyngoplasty
- adenotonsillectomy
For every 1 point ↑ in Mallampati score how much do the odds ratio for OSA increase?
- ↑ by 2.5 for every 1 point ↑ in Mallampati
During induction what are 4 things we can do to help reduce issues with OSA?
- elvate HOB
- Pre oxygenate
- Know they might be difficult to mask ventilate or intubate
- Minimize or don’t use opioids
What anesthetic type might be preferred for OSA patients?
- Regional more than GA