Case of Membranous Croup — Tracheotomy — Recovery

Tracheotomy in a Case of Laryngitis: Recovery

the 5th. of January 1877. Stated that he had been suffering from occasional fits of dyspnoea for the last 3 or 4 months, and that lately his voice also has become hoarse ; has led a very irregular and dissipated life since his boyhood, and had syphilis and bubo about 20 years ago. Used sundry native drugs and was salivated. Is father of 3 children, two of whom died at an early age, one from cho...

A case of adult croup.

Croup, or laryngotracheobronchitis, is recognized as a common, generally benign illness in children. It is characterized by a barking cough, stridor, and fever, often preceded by an upper respiratory infection. The hallmark of croup is edema of the subglottic tissues, resulting in varying degrees of airway obstruction. In most pediatric patients, croup is a self-limited condition that may be sa...

Notes on a Case of Bronchial Croup

A Case of Asphyxia Followed by Tracheotomy

A sepoy, 2nd Regiment M. N. I., aged 42, service 21 years, had been lately under treatment for fever of a continued type with himbrici, and after being discharged from Hospital 20 days was suddenly attacked, after his evening meal, with such dyspnoea and violent coughing that lie was obliged to go to the Kegimental Hospital, whero he was admitted under the head of bronchitis, and after 6 days w...

Croup.

INTRODUCTION Croup is characterised by the abrupt onset, most commonly at night, of a barking cough, inspiratory stridor, hoarseness, and respiratory distress due to upper airway obstruction. It leads to signs of upper airway obstruction, and must be differentiated from acute epiglottitis, bacterial tracheitis, or an inhaled foreign body. Croup affects about 3% of children per year, usually bet...