Capacity in Pediatric Otolaryngology Globally: A Rising Tide Lifts All Ships (2023 AMW)
2023 AAO-HNSF Annual Meeting & OTO Experience
Despite 5 billion people lacking access to adequate surgical and anesthesia care worldwide, only 6% of these surgeries are performed in low/middle income countries. Through various global burden of disease studies, pediatric otolaryngology conditions represent many untreated and disability-inducing diseases. However, these pediatric conditions often require a multidisciplinary team approach including appropriate peri-operative pain and anesthesia, intensive care and medical subspecialties. Without this, improvements in quality and access may be difficult to achieve. This panel will discuss global efforts how parallel efforts within a health system can improve perioperative pediatric care. This will help serve as a primer for a future career that involves global surgery, improving the effectiveness of our global impact as a community. Within an open discussion among the panelists and the audience, we will focus on: 1. Global efforts in pediatric otolaryngology, 2. How to establish bidirectional goals and expectations, 3. Why bidirectional education at the learner level is so important, 4. How to develop sustainability within multiple disciplines, and finally 5.A Discussion of the ethics of global surgery and the avoidance of common pitfalls.
Credits
CME:1.0, MOC:1.0