Airway and Swallowing Clinic

The pediatric airway clinic is a multidisciplinary clinic in which children with disorders of the airway, swallowing and sleep undergo comprehensive evaluation. The pediatric otolaryngologists, in collaboration with pulmonology and with support from speech language pathologists, evaluate children with complex airway and swallowing problems. A multidisciplinary approach is adopted in the management of children with complex airway problems providing a comprehensive workup and management options with input from different specialties.

All aspects of complex pediatric airway and swallowing problems are managed and the hospital offers state of the art laser and robotic airway procedures for these complicated patients.

Swallowing studies including functional endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) are used for the diagnosis and treatment of upper aerodigestive disorders.

The surgical procedures offered:

• Endoscopic airway procedures
• Open airway procedures including laryngotracheal reconstruction
• Pediatric vocal cord paralysis surgery
• Management of neonatal airway obstruction
• Laryngeal cleft repair
• Complex pediatric sleep apnea
• Supraglottoplasty for laryngomalacia

Our stories

Keona Mock has a tracheostomy and a speaking valve so she can speak. Her adopted family could hear her for the first time over the holiday season.