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©2013 UpToDate ® Print Email Typical hospital, intensive care, and ventilation courses of children with bacterial tracheitis Case series Period of study 1991-2001 [1] 1997-2006 [2] 2000-2005 [3] No. of cases 44 not intubated 40 intubated 17 (15 intubated) 28 (6 intubated) Hospital days, mean ± SD (median) 4.3 6.2 11 ± 11 (7) 9.1 ± 4.8 PICU days 2.2 4.3 9.1 ± 8.8 (6.5) 2.0 ± 2.2 Ventilator days, mean ± SD (median) 3.2 [4] 7.5 ± 5.6 (6) SD: standard deviation. 1. Salamone FN, Bobbitt DB, Myer CM, et al. Bacterial tracheitis reexamined: is there a less severe manifestation?. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2004; 131:871. 2. Hopkins A, Lahiri T, Salerno R, Heath B. Changing epidemiology of life-threatening upper airway infections: the reemergence of bacterial tracheitis. Pediatrics 2006; 118:1418. 3. Huang Y-L, Peng, C-C, Chiu N-C, et al. Bacterial tracheitis in pediatrics: 12 year experience at a medical center in Taiwan. Pediatr Int 2009; 51:110. 4. Data from subset of 26 intubated cases from January 1995-February 1996 reported by Bernstein T, Brilli R, Jacobs B. Is bacterial tracheitis changing? A 14-month experience in a pediatric intensive care unit. Clin Infect Dis 1998; 27:458.