Tracheotomy in Diphtheria and Croup

Croup and Diphtheria

[Concluded from page 255.] The following will be read with interest in connection with the subject discussed in last number. From it it will be seen that some of the views entertained and expressed in 1879, were precisely those held and expressed by a physician, who took no part in this recent debate, some seventeen years back. Dr. Hillier (then AssistantPhysician to the hospital for sick child...

Tracheotomy in Laryngeal Diphtheria

"Retraction of the soft parts of the anterior chest wall during inspiration, together with the more or less complete suppression of voice, are the indications par excellence for the performance of tracheotomy. "Tracheotomy is in no sense a therapeutic measure; therefore, neither the local nor the general treatment of diphtheria should be suspended after the performance of the operation. " The c...

Case of Diphtheria Treated by Tracheotomy, Peptonised Enemata and Iodoform

Tracheotomy versus intubation: surgical intervention in diphtheria in Europe and the United States, 1825-1930.

m Diphtheria is one of the common infectious diseases of childhood which is rare today because of preventive immunizatioi~. A centuqr ago, however, it was one of the major lullers of children under the age of ten, and was widely feared throughout Europe and America.' Although the disease has been know11 since ancient times, and was described by Galen and Aretaeus in the second and third centuri...

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...