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Lower respiratory Infection in Children Dave Rupar, MD 8 January 2013. Gooallll!. Goals for today. Get everybody thinking about pediatric Lower Respiratory Infection through some illustrative cases Avoid perseverating on RSV Help you develop a basic approach to diagnosis and management
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Lower respiratory Infection in Children Dave Rupar, MD 8 January 2013
Goals for today • Get everybody thinking about pediatric Lower Respiratory Infection through some illustrative cases • Avoid perseverating on RSV • Help you develop a basic approach to diagnosis and management • Help you recognize and deal with “problem cases”
Case 1 • 5 month-old boy to office in February • 3 days of fever, runny nose & cough • Previously well • RR 50, temp 101.5ºF • Mild retractions • Rales, rhonchi, wheezes both lung fields
Does this child have LRI/pneumonia? • Sinusitis? Pharyngitis? • Common cold? • Epiglottitis? • Croup (LTB)? • Tracheitis? • Bronchitis? • Bronchiolitis? • Pneumonia?
Does this child have LRI/pneumonia? • History of: • Cough • Fever • Difficulty breathing • Exposures • Season • Sensitive but not specific
PE #1: look and count • Visual inspection • Count 30-60 seconds • RR may be single best indicator of LRI • Abnormal • <2 months: >60 • 2-12 months: >50 • >12 months: >40 • 10/min/ºC
PE #2: Signs of respiratory distress Assess Work of Breathing • Retractions • Chest indrawing/ ”paradoxical” • Flaring • Grunting • Mental status Then you can listen
Etiology of LRI in children-Viruses • RSV** • Influenza • Adenovirus • Parainfluenza • hMPV • Rhinovirus • HCoV? (SARS and beyond) • HBoV?? RSV virions budding from infected respiratory epithelium
Etiology of LRI in children-Bacteria • Streptococcus pneumoniae • Mycoplasma pneumoniae • Staphylococcus aureus • Streptococcus pyogenes • Chlamydia pneumoniae? • Chlamydia trachomatis • Mtb
Relative Importance of Etiologies of Childhood Pneumonias Data adapted from my own imagination
Respiratory distress with noisy chest (bronchiolitis!) Exposure and season Diffuse involvement of respiratory tract CXR: Hyperinflation Bilateral Peribronchial infiltrates Atalectasis Diffuse changes Viral? 6-week old boy, RSV+
Respiratory distress with quiet chest Preceding illness, getting worse WBC > 15,000 CXR 85% unilateral “Round” pneumonia Alveolar infiltrate Effusion (20-30%) Viral or Bacterial? 3-year old boy with fever and cough
Respiratory distress with quiet chest Preceding illness, getting worse WBC > 15,000 CXR 85% unilateral “Round” pneumonia Alveolar infiltrate Effusion (20-30%) Viral or Bacterial? Lookie here
Viral or Bacterial? • An imperfect science • Some patients have dual etiologies (superinfection?) • Careful consideration of patient can allow you to limit antibiotic use • Most of the time you will never know • 2011 Guidelines recommend BC: • Toxic, hospitalized • Failure of treatment Clin Infect Dis 2011;53:617
A quick look at RSV: Epidemiology • Wintertime epidemics • Wide spectrum of disease: upper to lower tract • Attack rates: • 20% community • 50% household • 40% HCWs, children’s ward • 20% infants hospitalized > 7 days
Risk factors for severe disease CHD (esp PHT) BPD CF Any chronic lung disease Immunodeficiency Prematurity Age < 6 weeks RSV Bronchiolitis
Diagnosis of RSV • Usual diagnosis is clinical • PCR, EIA, DFA, viral culture are all reliable • EBM guidelines say “don’t test” • Lab DX for epidemiology, difficult cases • Chest radiographs may be misleading
Case 2: KH • 3 year-old presents to ED • Cough, fever for 2 days. • Previously well, immunizations “UTD” • Rx azithromycin KH CXR on day 1
KH- continued • Rx azithromycin • Worsens over next 2 days, returns to ED • T 101.4º, RR 36, P 123 • Mild retracting, flaring, grunting • Chest clear • Possible decreased breath sounds on right • WBC 18K with 53N, 32B
KH CXR 48 hours later BC : S. pneumoniae, resistant to penicillin & erythromycin Did well on ceftriaxone iv for 7 days
Data on 85 Finnish children with bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia Toikka et al. Clin Infect Dis 1999; 29:568
Pneumococcal Resistance to β-lactams • Increase in 1990s • Good News!: Vaccine strains tend to be most resistant • May not matter outside CNS* • Often accompanied by other resistance mutations (macrolides, chloro, t/s) • Revised standards *Kaplan et al. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2001;20:392: 99/100 children with resistant Sp bacteremia/pneumonia treated with parenteral cephalosporins did well
CHS Data on Pneumococcal Susceptibility Number is % susceptible
Down but not out LCH opens Pneumococcal isolate from sterile sites <13 years old, CMC/LCH/Children’s ED 2000-6/2012
Case 3: SH • 2 year old girl • Presents to office with URI, fever for one week • Mild distress, decreased breath sounds • CXR: infiltrate (where?) • IM ceftriaxone SH, CXR day 1
Case 3: SH • 2 year old girl • Presents to office with URI, fever for one week • Mild distress, decreased breath sounds • CXR: LLL infiltrate • IM ceftriaxone • Next day: worse SH, CXR day 1
Why do children fail treatment? • Effusions/empyema • Wrong drug • Wrong bug (tb, atypicals, virus) • Wrong Dx (FB, asthma) • Underlying immunodeficiency • Anatomic problem (sequestered lobe, CCAM)
Case 3:SH, continued • Admitted for IV treatment with ceftriaxone • Day 3 thoracentesis, chest tube • 12 days in PICU • BC grew S. pneumoniae, penicillin sensitive
Complicated Pneumonias • Retrospective review of 254 children with Sp pneumonia • 189 inpatients: 72 (38%)with effusion • 65 outpatients: 1 with effusion • Overall 29% had effusion Tan et al. Pediatrics 1998; 102:1369
42 pneumonias with empyema Mean age 54 mo (2-163) 50%♂; 50% ♀ CMC 2001-2007 Thanks to Kathryn Eaker, MD
42 children with pneumonia and empyema Mean age 54 mo (2-163) 50%♂; 50% ♀ Etiology: 16 pneumococcal 4 Staphylococcus aureus 2 Mycoplasma 2 GAS 18 Unknown CMC 2001-2007 Thanks to Kathryn Eaker, MD
Complicated Pneumonia-Management Why do you keep robbing banks, Willie?
Why drain the effusion? 1. 2.
Why drain the effusion? 1. Diagnosis 2. Therapy
Case 4: CB • 13 y.o. girl • Fever, cough; presumptive influenza • Rx oseltamivir, then CRO + cefprozil • No improvement • RR 36, T 101.3ºF, ill • Flaring, retractions • Crackles on left
Case 4: CB, continued • WBC 12.5, 80% N • Vanco, ceftriaxone • Mycoplasma pneumoniae IgM + • Rx azithromycin • Did well.
Mycoplasma - Epidemiology • 20-30% childhood pneumonias • Spread by cough • No seasonal pattern • Long incubation: 1-3 weeks • ~40% family contacts infected (may be asymptomatic) • Peak in school-aged, adolescents but may affect younger children
Mycoplasma - Clinical • “Walking pneumonia” • Tracheobronchitis • WARI • 25% extra-pulmonary manifestations • May be severe Mycoplasma colonies on agar
Mycoplasma - Dx • CXR • Bronchopneumonia • May be lobar • 20% bilateral • 10% effusion • “Looks worse than the patient” • Cold agglutinins • Serology- IgM, IgG (acute and convalescent)
Mycoplasma - Rx • Macrolides • Ketolides • Tetracyclines • Fluoroquinolones- post pubertal patients
Antibiotic choices for community-acquired pneumonia-Outpatient, not sick * deviation from Clin Infect Dis 2011;53:617