PMID: 26827594Feb 2, 2016Paper

A Clinical Study of Acute Epiglottitis

Nihon Jibiinkoka Gakkai kaiho
Sunao TanakaMasafumi Ohki

Abstract

We carried out a retrospective review of 285 cases of acute epiglottitis (180 males, 105 females, mean age 49.6 years) that required inpatients hospital care between 1998 and 2014. All the patients complained of sore throat, and 62 patients complained of respiratory discomfort; 17 patients had severe dyspnea, and 27 patients required airway management (tracheotomy in 25, cricothyroidotomy in 2 patients). All the patients survived. As acute epiglottitis can cause rapidly progressive airway obstruction and death, emergent airway management should be undertaken in patients with dyspnea. However, it is difficult to determine the indications for prophylactic respiratory management in patients without dyspnea. Therefore, the disease severity of the epiglottitis was evaluated on a five-grade scale according to the degree of swelling of both the epiglottis and the arytenoids. Although prospective evaluation is necessary, this scoring system may be beneficial to determine the indication for airway management, because all of the patients who complained of severe dyspnea or underwent airway management had grade 4 or 5 disease, while none of the patients with grade 1-3 disease required tracheotomy or cricothyroidotomy. Moreover, we compare...Continue Reading

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