Clinical and functional results in tracheotomized children
Kambic, V.; Cernelc, D.; Varsek, M.; Gros, A.
Laryngologie Rhinologie Otologie 56(5): 452-457
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0340-1588 PMID: 141562 Document Number: 113825
Twenty-nine children between the ages of 2-months- and 7-years-old were tracheotomized at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Med. Centre, Ljubljana, from 1965 to 1974. Decannulation was performed 6 days postoperatively, on the average. Complications of tracheotomy were observed in 2 children only; one child died on the 7. postoperative day to basic disease. Twenty tracheotomized children were subject to follow-up examination consisting of history taking, clinical, otorhinolaryngologic, anthropometric and allergologic examinations. In eleven school children spirography and bodyplethysmographie for a possible tracheostenosis was performed. The calculated FEV1/FIV1 quotient, e.g. statistically significant values higher than 1.0 revealed tracheostenosis in two patients.