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  • Title: [Risk of long-term intubation in pseudocroup].
    Author: Schultz-Coulon HJ.
    Journal: HNO; 1985 May; 33(5):204-7. PubMed ID: 3924864.
    Abstract:
    The mortality and complication rates of prolonged endotracheal intubation and tracheostomy are now similar. A patient is reported to show that prolonged intubation cannot be recommended for the treatment of subglottic laryngotracheitis. laryngotracheal stenosis after such treatment is a considerably more difficult therapeutic problem than a tracheal stenosis after tracheostomy. It also produces irreversible disturbance of laryngeal function. For this reason early tracheostomy, after endotracheal intubation for 24 h at most, is to be preferred in severe pseudocroup.
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