Acute epiglottitis after COVID‐19 infection |
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| Authors: | Andreas Renner,Satu Lamminmä ki,Taru Ilmarinen,Tamim Khawaja,Juuso Paajanen |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Heart and Lung Center, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki Finland ; 2. Individualized Drug Therapy Research Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki Finland ; 3. Department of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Head and Neck Center, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki Finland ; 4. Inflammation Center, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki Finland |
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| Abstract: | In patients with acute epiglottitis, the possibility of COVID‐19 should be ruled out. Repeated nasofiberoscopy examinations or a tracheostomy, which may produce infectious aerosols, may be required. |
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| Keywords: | case report, COVID‐ 19, epiglottitis, PPE measures, surgical tracheostomy |
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