Abstract
The authors have questionnaired 67 ENT practitioners in Tochigi prefecture on acute epiglottitis. Several interesting answers have been obtained.Almost a half of doctors have had an impression that incidence of this disease gradually decreased in recent years.Eleven per cent of doctors have pointed out that acute epiglottitis occurred more frequently in children than adults. This tendency is noted in U.S.A. and often European countries. However, previous several reports in Japan have indicated that the disease more frequently affects adults than children.All the doctors (100%) have made a diagnosis of acute epiglottitis by indirect and/or direct laryngoscope, with reference to several characteristic symptoms of the disease.The majority of doctors have not regarded an incision of the edematously swollen epiglottis as the first choice of the surgical treatment. Penicillins and/or cephems have been most commonly used in cases.Some doctors have encountered the patients who died because of airway obstruction in the course of the desease.
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