PEDIATRICS Vol. 36 No. 3 September 1965, pp. 450
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Letters to the Editor

F. HOWELL WRIGHT M.D.1 and MARC O. BEEM M.D.1

1 Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, 920 East 59th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637

Elsewhere in this issue of Pediatrics, Drs. Canby and Redd describe experiences which clearly controvert our categoric banishment of tracheotomy in the treatment of bronchiolitis. We ought to have been more temperate and said that tracheotomy should be considered only in unusual circumstances–a view with which Dr. Canby apparently agrees.

It is interesting to speculate upon why the infants he described had unusual trouble—trouble which in at least two instances was noted to come on suddenly in the course of a routine attack of bronchiolitis.