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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 8 Acute upper airway obstruction on clinical [Keywords:] acute clinical diagnosis and treatment of upper airway obstruction Upper airway obstruction (UAO) is a variety of reasons due to severe upper airway obstruction flow of clinical emergency. The main clinical manifestations of dyspnea, easy and bronchial asthma and obstructive pulmonary disease and other diseases to be confused. Causes more on the reason airway obstruction, most commonly caused by exogenous foreign body. onset of the priorities of the severity of the disease and treatment. respiratory system, including the transmission of airway nose, throat, trachea, main bronchus, lobar bronchus, segmental bronchi, bronchioles and other parts until the terminal bronchioles. because of the differences in respiratory mechanics, airway can be divided into three parts: ① the small airways, that diameter lt;2mm airway, ② airway, means the following carina the airway to 2mm; ③ the upper airway, as from the nose to the trachea carina a respiratory tract, including the nose, throat and trachea. 1 Clinical data Acute upper airway obstruction is the general term for acute illness, is a more serious, potentially fatal acute clinical one, its causes are many, but the lack of specificity of clinical signs, the general performance of the breathing difficulties, tend to be misdiagnosed as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma, bronchitis and other respiratory diseases, leading to misdiagnosis of patients, delayed treatment of serious critical life. 1.1 General information retrospectively in our hospital in December 2008 ~ May 2010 was diagnosed 24 cases of acute upper airway obstruction in patients, in 24 cases of acute upper airway obstruction in patients with recurrent inflammation more than 16 hoses cases of tuberculosis in 4 cases, multiple thyroid nodules in 1 case of solid tumor in 2 cases. 1.2 The main clinical symptoms of dyspnea, inspiratory dyspne