I've seen two. ?always <aged three and sick++ in ?less than an hours
history.
Put the neck in extension and with oxygen ? gain a few minuites.
One of them was while I was just finishing paeds. Child sick ++. Brought in
by my trainer to be.
SR in anaesthetics (an unshaved, calm Aussie) came (thank god) and prepared
to intubate. I asked him, as he was poised to paralyse the child with some
suxamethonium or the like, how you knew where to put the tube. As the child
went floppy, apnoeic, he said, with his Australian accent, laryngoscope in
situ, "stick the tube where you see the bubbles".
That was the first he had done.
John Charlton.
Derby.
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> From: Chris Burton <[log in to unmask]>
> To: GP-UK <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: croup vs epiglottitis
> Date: 03 August 1998 00:47
>
> OK it's the wrong time of year for this one, but.. "croup typically
develops
> over days, epiglottitis over hours" is one of the common things in lists
of
> the difference between the two. My memory says this chestnut was in the
> Noddy Does Paeds books 10-15years ago written by consultants; my
experience
> says that croup usually develops in the time between a child with a bit
of a
> runny nose going to bed, and the GP on call going to his bed.
>
> What do you think?
>
>
> Chris
>
> (doing a book review and not wanting to make a complete prat of himself)
>
>
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