[Clinical and functional results in tracheotomized children (author's transl)]

Twenty-nine children between the ages of 2-months- and 7-years-old were tracheotomized at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Med. Centre, Ljubljana, from 1965 to 1974. Decannulation was performed 6 days postoperatively, on the average. Complications of tracheotomy were observed in 2 children only; one child died on the 7. postoperative day to basic disease. Twenty tracheotomized children were subject to follow-up examination consisting of history taking, clinical, otorhinolaryngologic, anthropometric and allergologic examinations. In eleven school children spirography and bodyplethysmographie for a possible tracheostenosis was performed. The calculated FEV1/FIV1 quotient, e.g. statistically significant values higher than 1.0 revealed tracheostenosis in two patients.