| Medical Encyclopedia: Epiglottitis: Prognosis |
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With treatment (including the establishment of an artificial airway), only about 1% of children with epiglottitis die. Without the artificial airway, this figure jumps to 6%. Most patients recover form the infection, and can have the breathing tube removed (extubation) within a few days.
— Maureen Haggerty; Rosalyn Carson-DeWitt, MD
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