Pediatric Open Airway State of the Art

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Pediatric open airway surgery was popularized in the 1970s, utilizing laryngotracheoplasty to repair subglottic stenosis. Open airway surgery continues to evolve, and this course seeks to familiarize the audience with patient selection for open vs endoscopic surgery, and pre-operative evaluation and optimization. Specific operations to be discussed include laryngotracheal reconstruction, cricotracheal resection, slide tracheoplasty, laryngeal cleft repair, and revision surgery. Specific pathologies discussed will include subglottic stenosis, transglottic stenosis, tracheal stenosis, complete tracheal rings, laryngeal webs and subglottic hemangiomas. Both single stage and double stage techniques, as well as differing stenting methods will also be discussed. Preoperative management and management of complications will be discussed. Each year we discuss a few specific pathologies, and rotate these each year. This course is also the companion course to "Pediatric Endoscopic Airway Surgery: State of the Art"

OUTCOME OBJECTIVE 1: Understand the best candidates for open vs endoscopic airway reconstruction

OUTCOME OBJECTIVE 2: Be able to describe pre-operative evaluation and patient optimization prior to open airway surgery

OUTCOME OBJECTIVE 3: Be able to describe the risks, benefits, complications, and expected outcomes of specific techniques in pediatric open airway

BACKGROUND STATEMENT: This course was initiated by Robin Cotton over 35 years ago, and has remained extremely popular. Our Course evaluation scores have been
consistently high. It is the companion course to "Pediatric Endoscopic Airway Surgery: State of the Art"

Comprehensive Otolaryngology Track Statement :