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Epiglotite

Last reviewed: 26 Mar 2025
Last updated: 04 Sep 2024

Summary

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • presença de fatores de risco
  • não imunização com a vacina contra o Hib
  • faringite
  • disfagia
  • dificuldade para controlar secreções
  • aparência toxêmica
  • sofrimento agudo
  • febre
  • posição em tripé
  • dificuldade para respirar
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Other diagnostic factors

  • diminuição da ingestão oral
  • voz abafada
  • estridor
  • irritabilidade
  • sialorreia
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Risk factors

  • não imunização com a vacina contra o Hib
  • imunocomprometimento
  • meia-idade
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Diagnostic investigations

1st investigations to order

  • laringoscopia
  • radiografia lateral do pescoço em posição ereta
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Investigations to consider

  • hemograma completo
  • hemoculturas/supraglote (epiglote)
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Treatment algorithm

ACUTE

apresentação inicial

ONGOING

depois de estável e extubado

Contributors

Authors

Rahul K. Shah, MD, FAAP
Rahul K. Shah

VP, Chief Quality and Safety Officer

Children's National Health System

Washington

DC

Disclosures

RKS declares that he has no competing interests. RKS is an author of references cited in this topic.

Peer reviewers

Scott Brietzke, MD

Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Department of Surgery - Otolaryngology Service

Washington

DC

Disclosures

SB declares that he has no competing interests.

Sanjay Parikh, MD

Associate Professor

Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Bronx

NY

Disclosures

SP declares that he has no competing interests.

Kimsey Rodriguez, MD

Ochsner Health System

Department of Otolaryngology

New Orleans

LA

Disclosures

KR declares that he has no competing interests.

David Parry, MD

Catalina ENT

Tucson

AZ

Disclosures

DP declares that he has no competing interests.

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