title: [Diagnosis and treatment of serious pediatric airway obstruction].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the diagnosis and treatment of serious pediatric airway obstruction.
  
  
  METHODS
  Seventy three pediatric cases with serious airway obstruction, admitted to Shantou hospital from 1995 to 2005, were analyzed retrospectively.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among the 73 cases, 28 cases (38.4%) with inflammatory disease and 33 cases (45.2%) with foreign body. In addition, 8 cases of laryngeal papilloma, 3 cases of laryngotracheobronchial spasm and 1 case of pharyngeal dysembryoma were also included in this study. The patients who had endotracheal intubation or tracheotomy were 39 cases (53.4%) and 27 cases (36.9%) respectively. Ten cases received non-surgery treatment. Seventy two cases diagnosis was confirmed and the related serious airway obstruction condition got stable within 12 hours. While serious complications occurred in 23 cases (31.5%) and operative complications occurred in 3 cases (4.1%). Four cases ( 5.5%) died and 68 cases (93.2%) were cured. One case refused to be treated.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The condition of serious pediatric airway obstruction patients is usually critical, the related causes could be complicated, quick diagnosis and timely removal of the obstruction factors are imperative.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Shantou City Central Hospital, China. shuangle888@sohu.com
authors.forename: Shuang-le
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Chu
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Chuang-wei
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Dong-tao
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: En-he
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016638:Critical Illness; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome