Health Outcomes Following Treatment With Continuous Positive Airway Pressure or Noninvasive Ventilation in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and a Sleep Related Breathing Disorder
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 终止
- 入组人数
- 11
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Proportion of patients with moderate-severe exacerbations of COPD (Emergency Department visit for COPD) in the 2 years following initiation of CPAP or NIV compared to the 2 years prior
研究概览
简要总结
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic lung disease affecting an estimated 1 in 10 Canadians. Symptoms include persistent shortness of breath, cough and sputum production. The symptoms can be serious when people with COPD experience a flare of their disease and may lead to hospitalization or death. Improving other conditions that affect COPD control is one way to improve the health of people with COPD. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is the most common breathing problem during sleep, and commonly co-exists with COPD. Although diagnosing and treating OSA is encouraged, it has not been highlighted in guidelines that recommend ideal COPD care. People with COPD and OSA have lower sleep quality and lower oxygen levels during sleep compared to people with OSA. Despite these differences, treatment of OSA in people with COPD is modeled after treatment of OSA in the general population, generally using treatment with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) with the possible addition of oxygen through the CPAP machine. There are few studies looking at other types of treatment including noninvasive ventilation (NIV) in people with COPD and OSA. The majority of studies of NIV in COPD has been for people with other reasons to use NIV including acute respiratory failure or chronic hypercarbic respiratory failure and did not include people with risk factors for OSA or who had undergone overnight sleep studies.
In Alberta, NIV is provided province wide for people who have both OSA who do not meet certain physiologic targets in their oxygen levels or breathing patterns after CPAP is applied on an overnight sleep study. NIV is provided preferentially to CPAP and oxygen, providing an opportunity to look at health outcomes when NIV is used instead of CPAP for the treatment of patients with COPD. Through this study, we will measure whether people with COPD and a sleep related breathing disorder such as OSA have fewer severe flares of COPD after starting CPAP or NIV. We will evaluate whether the number of Emergency Department visits, hospitalizations or deaths lowers after starting CPAP or NIV.
详细描述
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a common chronic lung disease affecting more than 10% of Canadians. Patients with COPD have significant morbidity from the disease as almost 60% of Albertans living with COPD were hospitalized between 2012-2014. Sleep related breathing disorders (SRBD) are a common comorbidity of COPD, and contribute to the morbidity associated with COPD. The most common SRBD is OSA. It is estimated that 1.0-3.6% of Canadians are affected by both OSA and COPD. People with COPD and OSA have lower sleep quality, lower oxygen saturations and greater nocturnal oxygen desaturations when their sleep is compared to people with OSA. Observational studies suggest that patients with OSA and COPD have a higher risk of hospitalization, exacerbation of COPD, or death; however, the evidence to support the assessment and management of OSA improving COPD health outcomes has not been considered substantial enough to justify inclusion in COPD guidelines. Other SRBDs that may impact patients with COPD are sleep-related hypoventilation as a consequence of obesity, or central sleep apnea as a consequence of cardiac disease, stroke or use of opioids; however, these are less common and less studied types of SRBD within sleep literature.
Two treatments that are commonly prescribed for SRBD are CPAP or NIV. In patients with OSA, CPAP improves quality of life, daytime sleepiness, and blood pressure control. In patients with COPD who have OSA, observational studies suggest that CPAP use is associated with survival, with the duration of CPAP use per night lowering mortality in a dose dependent manner, an increased time to first moderate-severe COPD exacerbation and fewer hospitalizations related to exacerbations of COPD. The association of decreased health care utilization with CPAP is greater in patients with a higher COPD complexity and number of comorbidities, indicating those who are the sickest may derive the most harm from untreated disease. NIV is better tolerated than CPAP in some patients with OSA; yet, there have been only a few studies evaluating its use for a SRBD in COPD. Further work in this area is critically important as the indications for use of NIV are expanding among patients with COPD.
We are uniquely positioned to complete this study as NIV is provided province-wide in Alberta and patient health outcomes are available in provincial databases. In addition, within the provincial titration protocol for polysomnography, NIV is provided preferentially over CPAP with oxygen, differentiating the management of these patients from the titration protocols used in other studies.
Through this study, we will explore whether treatment with NIV or CPAP for a SRBD in patients with COPD results in fewer moderate-severe exacerbations of COPD and whether the use of these devices have an impact on health care utilization and mortality. In a subgroup analysis, we will explore whether NIV use results in similar outcomes as CPAP, and account for differences in disease severity in this comparison. Adherence with these CPAP or NIV will also be summarized. The results from this study will inform regional care as well as provide insight into the roles of CPAP and NIV in the treatment of SRBD in patients with COPD.
Sample size:
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 40 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Consenting adults who have completed polysomnography at the University of Alberta Sleep Disorders Laboratory in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
- •Naïve to CPAP or NIV therapy or have use of CPAP or NIV <4 weeks in the past
- •Diagnosed with COPD by a respirologist and has fixed airflow obstruction on spirometry (i.e., post-bronchodilator FEV1/FVC <LLN on spirometry or FEV1/FVC <0.70 if the LLN is not provided)
- •Diagnosed with a SRBD for which CPAP or NIV are commonly prescribed, as defined below; some of the patients with mild SRBD or a SRBD suspected to be secondary to COPD rather than OSA (e.g. mild OSA, sustained hypercarbia, hypoxemia etc) may not be prescribed CPAP or NIV at the treating physician's discretion
- •OSA will be defined as a predominantly obstructive apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) ≥5 events/hr of sleep on sleep diagnostic testing in the presence of symptoms/relevant comorbidities or an AHI ≥15 events/hr irrespective of symptoms. If home sleep apnea testing was used in place of polysomnography, the respiratory event index (REI) will be a surrogate of AHI.
- •Hypoventilation will be defined by polysomnography criteria as a sustained elevation in the TcCO2 to be >55 mmHg for ≥10 min or a rise in TcCO2 by >10 mmHg to a value >50 mmHg for ≥10 min. If an arterial blood gas is available, sustained hypercapnia as defined by arterial carbon dioxide oxygen tension (PaCO2) >45 mmHg or serum bicarbonate (HCO3) ≥27 mmol/L while medically stable will be reported.
排除标准
- •Significant lung disease in addition to COPD
- •Neuromuscular disease including diaphragmatic paralysis
- •Treatment with CPAP or NIV for >4 weeks prior to study eligibility.
- •Refusal to participate
- •Inability to consent in English and do not have an interpreter readily available
- •Current diagnosis of an active malignancy
- •Central sleep apnea as the indication for PAP treatment. Central sleep apnea will be defined as a central hypopnea index ≥5 events/hr of sleep on polysomnography and the number of central apneas and/or central hypopneas is >50% of the AHI with or without Cheyne-Stokes breathing
结局指标
主要结局
Proportion of patients with moderate-severe exacerbations of COPD (Emergency Department visit for COPD) in the 2 years following initiation of CPAP or NIV compared to the 2 years prior
时间窗: 2 years
\[stratified by intervention with CPAP or NIV\]
次要结局
- Proportion of patients with severe exacerbation of COPD (hospitalization/intensive care unit admission for COPD) in the 2 years following initiation of CPAP or NIV compared to the 2 years prior(2 years)
- Mean difference in the number of days hospitalized in the 2 years after the date of CPAP or NIV initiation or date of sleep diagnostic testing compared to the 2 years prior(2 years)
- Mean difference in hospitalizations/intensive care unit admissions for severe exacerbations of COPD in the 2 years after the date of CPAP or NIV initiation or date of sleep diagnostic testing compared to the 2 years prior(2 years)
- Mean and median hours of use of CPAP or NIV in hours/day(2 years)
- Mean difference in Emergency Department visits for moderate-severe exacerbations of COPD in the 2 years after the date of CPAP or NIV initiation or date of sleep diagnostic testing compared to the 2 years prior(2 years)
- Composite outcome of Emergency Department visits or hospitalizations following the date of NIV or CPAP initiation or date of sleep diagnostic testing(2 years)
- Mortality following the start of NIV or CPAP or following the date of sleep diagnostic testing(2 years)