Acute epiglottitis: Trends, diagnosis and management

Acute epiglottitis is a life-threatening disorder with serious implications to the anesthesiologist because of the potential for laryngospasm and irrevocable loss of the airway. Acute epiglottitis can occur at any age. Early diagnosis with careful and rapid intervention of this serious condition is...

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Autor principal: Abdallah, Claude
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3498669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23162404
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1658-354X.101222
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spelling pubmed-34986692012-11-16 Acute epiglottitis: Trends, diagnosis and management Abdallah, Claude Saudi J Anaesth Review Article Acute epiglottitis is a life-threatening disorder with serious implications to the anesthesiologist because of the potential for laryngospasm and irrevocable loss of the airway. Acute epiglottitis can occur at any age. Early diagnosis with careful and rapid intervention of this serious condition is necessary in order to avoid life-threatening complications. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3498669/ /pubmed/23162404 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1658-354X.101222 Text en Copyright: © Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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