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Pediatric Airway Assessment Tool (PAAT): A Rating Tool to Assess Resident Proficiency in Simulated Pediatric Airway Skills Performance [PDF]
Introduction The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has identified the need for assessment of core skills for pediatric and emergency medicine residents, which includes pediatric airway management.
Robyn Wing +6 more
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Pediatric Airway Pathology [PDF]
Congenital or acquired disorders of the pediatric airway can affect the upper, lower, or entire airway. There are fundamental differences between the anatomy and physiology of the neonate, pediatric, and adult airways. Infants are not merely small adults
Shyan Vijayasekaran, Shyan Vijayasekaran
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Feasibility of Assessing the Abnormal Pediatric Airway Using Rotational Optical Coherence TomographyTake-Home Points [PDF]
Background: Methods currently used to assess and diagnose abnormalities of pediatric airways have several limitations: CT scans involve a risk of ionizing radiation and diagnostic dynamic bronchoscopies have high interobserver variability.
Sune Rubak, MD, PhD +5 more
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Changes in Breathing Patterns after Surgery in Severe Laryngomalacia
Background: Most of the studies regarding the surgical treatment of severe laryngomalacia (LM) have been aimed at describing the efficacy of the treatment in terms of improvement of clinical symptoms or anatomical findings.
Fabrizio Cialente +8 more
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Pediatric airway surgery [PDF]
The management of pediatric airway pathology can be challenging and requires a dedicated team, consisting of thoracic surgeons, phoniatricians, logopedics, pediatricians and anesthetists. It necessitates a tailored treatment approach for each individual patient in order to address the minor variances that exist between cases.
Konrad, Hoetzenecker +3 more
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Primary Posterior Tracheopexy in Esophageal Atresia Decreases Respiratory Tract Infections
Background: Esophageal atresia (EA) is often accompanied by tracheomalacia (TM). TM can lead to severe respiratory complaints requiring invasive treatment.
E. Sofie van Tuyll van Serooskerken +14 more
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Imaging of the pediatric airway [PDF]
SummaryAirway compromise can be fixed, dynamic (with varying degrees of collapse during the respiratory cycle), or exhibit both components. The location of the abnormality can be classified as extrinsic (located outside but exerting mass effect on the airway) or intrinsic (intramural and/or intraluminal).
Hedieh K, Eslamy, Beverly, Newman
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Objectives To analyze a multidisciplinary tracheostomy team’s effect on length of stay and cost. Methods An airway management program using a balanced scorecard was created to track key performance measures.
Stephen R. Chorney MD, MPH +6 more
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Chronic airway diseases, such as wheezing and asthma, remain significant sources of morbidity and mortality in the pediatric population. This is especially true for preterm infants who are impacted both by immature pulmonary development as well as ...
Emily Y. Zhang +6 more
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