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Query: UMLS:C0032290 (aspiration pneumonia)
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Acute epiglottitis is a pediatric airway emergency. No deaths occurred in 61 cases treated by elective tracheostomy at The Montreal Children's Hospital between 1966 and 1974. Seven patients (11.5%) showed evidence of aspiration pneumonia prior to tracheostomy and seven others developed pulmonary atelectasis in the first 24 hours following tracheostomy but only 9.8% of the total had a complication which continued in evidence 24 hours following surgery. A further 19.5% developed further complications unrelated to this earlier morbidity prior to discharge from hospital. The mean cannulation time was seven days and the mean hospital stay was nine days. Of these patients, 32 (52.4%) were seen between a year and seven-and-a-half years later. Twenty were completely asymptomatic with a small, neat scar. Twelve patients had experienced some upper respiratory problem or minor problems related to the tracheostomy incision.
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PMID:Acute epiglottitis in children - the morbidity of management by elective tracheostomy. 60 15

Pneumothorax develops when extraalveolar air ruptures into the pleural space with partial or complete collapse of the affected lung. Pneumothorax can occur at any time during the newborn period, but it usually appears as a complication of some other respiratory problem. The purpose of this study is to known the incidence of pneumothorax due to the respiratory difficulties. The materials were taken from 2368 neonates suffering from respiratory difficulties, out of 7445 neonates born in Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital in 1987 and 1988. All these babies were put on radiological examination. Among those 10 babies were diagnosed as pneumothorax. It occurred as a complication of severe asphyxia (due to over vigorous initial resuscitation), and its incidence was 0.09%, that of respiratory distress syndrome (2.13%), bronchopneumonia (6.25%) and aspiration pneumonia (2.8%). The overall incidence of pneumothorax in the newborn with respiratory difficulties was 0.42% and the mortality 20%.
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PMID:Pneumothorax in the newborn with respiratory difficulties. 207 21