{"id":1277,"date":"2016-06-30T13:25:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T11:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2016-06-30T13:25:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T11:25:14","slug":"reducing-croup-severity-cuts-hospital-readmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/?p=1277","title":{"rendered":"Reducing Croup Severity Cuts Hospital Readmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/DigitalEditions\/mm1606-june-2016\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Reducing Croup Severity Cuts Hospital Readmission \u2013 MM1606<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Croup is characterised by the abrupt onset, most commonly at night, of a\u00a0barking cough, inspiratory stridor, hoarseness and respiratory distress due\u00a0to upper airway obstruction and must be differentiated from acute epiglottitis,\u00a0bacterial tracheitis, or an inhaled foreign body. 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