Paediatric airway
Aims
To advance knowledge in antenatal diagnosis and then early childhood management of vascular anomalies that affect the airways. Our main aim is to promote and develop standardised assessment and management in patients with vascular airway pathology. In addition we continue to expand the utility of airway stenting in children with life threatening airway pathology that me be amenable to intervention. This theme aims to improve delivery of airways management in both elective settings and critical care through research, education and multidisciplinary collaboration. This will improve care pathways and long-term outcomes for paediatric patients with vascular airway compression syndromes.
Focus areas
- Vascular anomalies in early childhood affecting the airway. The Evelina team are leading the way in diagnosing and then assessing thoracic vascualar anomalies in the prenatal and infancy stages of life.
- Airway stents. In select patients, airway stenting is a potential therapeutic intervention and our goal is to improve the understanding of this therapy and share expertise through research and multicentre collaboration.
Leadership
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Andrew Nyman, Lead for airway service at Evelina London, Deputy chair of PCCS Airway SIG, KCL honorary lecturer. Lead national critical care airway fellowship program. (Publications on bronchoscopy, airway interventions, ECMO, NAVA and Critical Care)
Theme Membership and Internal collaborators
- Elizabeth Boot, Deputy lead for airway service at Evelina London, PICU consultant, published on percutaneous ECMO of newborns and infants.
- Cecilia Korb, ELCH PICU consultant, published on percutaneous ECMO of newborns and infants.