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Chronic otitis media requiring ventilation tubes in tracheotomized ventilator dependent children.

Abstract：

:The occurrence of sinusitis and middle ear effusions has frequently been attributed to the obstruction of the sinus ostia and/or eustachian tube. In the intensive care unit setting, edema caused by the irritation from nasogastric, nasotracheal and orotracheal tubes has been associated with this pathology and has been responsible for occult sepsis in this population. Our investigation was performed to determine the risk of chronic otitis media with effusion necessitating myringotomy with tympanostomy tubes among tracheotomized, ventilator dependent children in a consecutive series of children admitted to our recently created stable ventilator unit. We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of all tracheotomized, chronically ventilator dependent children < 48 months of age who had been hospitalized in this unit from the initial opening in September 1990 to January 1993. Data collected consisted of patient demographics, gestational age, cognitive abilities, age at onset of mechanical ventilation, age at tracheostomy, age at myringotomy, presence of nasogastric and gastroenterostomy tubes and evidence of gastric-esophageal reflux. All children underwent a tracheostomy procedure subsequent to the onset of mechanical ventilation. Of these patients, 9/12 (75%) later required myringotomy with tympanostomy tube placement following the occurrence of chronic otitis media with effusion. Ventilation tubes for chronic otitis media with effusion were not required in 3 patients. Using a case control study design, we examined the need of myringotomy tubes for children requiring continuous mechanical ventilation versus those requiring night-time only ventilation. The risk of myringotomy tubes in the continuously ventilated group (9/9) was significantly greater than the risk in the intermittently ventilated group (0/3) P < 0.01.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

journal_name

Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol

journal_title

International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology

authors

Palmisano JM,Moler FW,Revesz SM,Custer JR,Koopmann C

doi

10.1016/0165-5876(94)90058-2

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1994-11-01 00:00:00

pages

177-82

issue

eissn

0165-5876

issn

1872-8464

pii

0165-5876(94)90058-2

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Chronic otitis media requiring ventilation tubes in tracheotomized ventilator dependent children.