Talk:Epiglottitis

Wiki Education assignment: WikiProject Medicine Fall 2022 UCF COM

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 24 October 2022 and 18 November 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Nobajoe (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Oddcomb.

— Assignment last updated by DrDexterN (talk) 20:35, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

Hello, I am a 4^th-year medical student who plans on updating this article for one of my courses. I think this is an important topic historically, even despite the decrease in incidence following routine childhood vaccination. I feel this article could become even more important in the future as bacteria evolve and vaccine hesitancy persists. Future epidemics are not out of question, at which point this article would experience significant traffic, especially if cases are reported in popular press

Here is the particular focus I will have:

-         Identifying modern trends following large-scale childhood vaccination

-         Adding more to the management section, with attention to more modern cases

-         Including a differential: peritonsillar abscess, retropharyngeal abscess, Ludwig angina, croup, foreign body, bacterial tracheitis

A few articles I plan on using:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29564363/

-         In immunocompromised patients

-         Underlying causes of immunocompromised states

-         Treatments, pathogens

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21106138/

-         Strep Pneumo as main cause in adults, many serotypes are covered by PPV-23, but no evidence that this vaccine helps yet

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20513048/

-         New portrait of patients, classically now 40-year-old urban white male

-         Patients <1 or >85 are also the more vulnerable populations now

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33152976/

-         Necrotizing epiglottitis, usually an adult condition, but has been reported in children

-         Function can be recovered even following partial necrosis of the epiglottis

This is just a starting point. Please let me know if you have any thoughts!

Nobajoe (talk) 18:51, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

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Hello fellow medical student! I am here to provide some feedback about your article, as I have noted some opportunities for minor improvement. Please let me know if any clarification is needed.

Lead:

“With vaccination [insert comma here] it is now more often caused by other bacteria”

it is not immediately clear that Hib == H. influenzae type b

“While, historically, young children were mostly affected, it is now more common among older children and adults” — restructure sentence to be 2 sentences

“In the United States [insert comma here] it affects about 1.3 per”

“In adults [insert comma here] between 1 and 4 per

“however, if they are intubated early [insert comma here] it is less than 1%”

Signs and symptoms:

Stridor is a sign of upper airways obstruction — is airways plural?

can likely reword “palpating” to more common language

Causes:

“Presently [insert comma here] the bacteria most often”

lowercase graft vs host, lymphoproliferative

last sentence is kinda confusing, please reword

Diagnosis:

add more citations in first paragraph for spasm, tongue depressor, etc.

can you update the 2018 comment on ultrasound?

what is the Halloween sign

add links to the abscess pages

add image of normal epiglottis in laryngoscopy

Management:

evidence for benefit is poor for which of the treatments?

“initially provide coverage” — do they stop after a bit?

(MRSA) is just an example, put “e.g.” or “primarily”

necrotizing epiglottis — change to epiglottitis

connect necrotizing fasciitis to epiglottitis again for clarity

Epidemiology:

standardize whether you use Haemophilus or Hemophilus

Notable cases:

mention Kim Seokjin "Jin" from BTS

Overall, I think this article meets the checklist requirements for notability, structure, clear writing, and neutrality. The sources appear to be current and well documented. There is also relevant media at appropriate sections.

- Oddcomb (talk) 01:06, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

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