OSA 18 questionnaire suitable option to monitor OSA improvement after Paediatric Adenotonsillar Hypertrophy surgery
New Delhi: Children with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) like symptoms can undergo portable polysomnography before and after surgery to show the severity of OSA and objectively monitor OSA improvement post-treatment, a recent study has stated. In the absence of portable polysomnography (PSG) availability, OSA 18 questionnaire is an appropriate alternative to monitor disease outcomes and severity.
The study's findings appeared in the Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery on 31 December 2022.
Himanshu Swami conducted the study, Army Hospital Research and Referral, New Delhi, India, and colleagues to determine the post-surgical outcomes in pediatric adenotonsillar hypertrophy with OSA using portable polysomnography, OSA 18 Questionnaire and Quality of life (QoL) scores. They also aimed to correlate the subjective outcomes with objective scores of polysomnography.
For this purpose, they performed a single-arm, prospective, nonrandomized, single-centre study at a tertiary care centre on 30 children aged 3-12 with adenoid hypertrophy/ tonsillar hypertrophy/adenotonsillar hypertrophy and symptoms indicative of OSA. All children underwent suitable surgical intervention. A portable evaluation of the OSA 18 questionnaire and PSG was performed presurgery and six weeks after surgery to evaluate clinical and objective assessment for OSA. The children's mean age was 8.68 ± three years.
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