What Is Tracheitis?
Reviewed: Dr. Gromatzky
8. Prognosis
Patients who receive oxygen and antibiotics during the acute stage of illness usually recover completely. They improve significantly within 5 days and remain hospitalized for an average of 3 to 12 days. Most suffer no permanent damage to the trachea.
Mortality occurs in 4 to 20% of patients, with the primary cause of death being lack of oxygen to the brain. Septic shock causes 2 to 6% of deaths, cardiorespiratory arrest causes 2 to 3%, and acute respiratory arrest causes 1 to 3%. Other causes of death like cardiac arrest, cerebral anoxia, pulmonary edema, pneumothorax, and toxic shock syndrome are rare and result in 1% or less of patient deaths.
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