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ASPO PEDIATRIC AERODIGESTIVE SYMPOSIUM AND SIMULATION
Date: Tuesday April 29, 2025 – 7:00 AM – 17:30 PM and Wednesday April 30, 2025 – 7:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Location: Shriner’s Hospital for Children, 1003 Decarie Boulevar, Montreal H4A 0A9, Canada.
Course Contact Person: Ms. Vicky Decubellis
E-mail: vicky.decubellis@muhc.mcgill.ca
Phone: (514) 412-4400; extension 25302
Fax: (514) 412-4342
Virtual Option Available - Please use PRECON2VIRT when registering to receive 50% off the registration fees.
Learning objectives:
At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Integrate into practice innovations, approaches and strategies for approaching and managing the difficult airway.
- Determine proper patient selection and choosing appropriate surgical interventions.
- Apply new airway surgical techniques
- Approach and manage patients with aerodigestive pathology
Symposium co-directors:
Dr. Alessandro De Alarcon, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Dr. Sam Daniel, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Dr. Clare Richardson, Phoenix Children's Hospital
Organizing committee symposium:
Dr. S Daniel, Dr. A De Alarcon, V Decubellis, Dr. C Hart, Dr. D Preciado, Dr. N Almutairi, Dr. O Orischak, Dr. B Thierry
Organizing Commitee Advances Airway Simulation:
Dr. C Richardson, Dr. J Siu, Dr. A De Alarcon, Dr. M Bergeron, Dr. S Daniel, Dr. E Propst, Dr. C Myer
Tuesday April 29, 2025 – 7:00 AM - 17:30 (DAY 1)
Symposium Schedule:
AM
7:00 to 8:00 Breakfast
Introduction and welcome
8:00-10:00 Plenary Session (All groups are together – A, B, Simulation)
8:00-9:00 Challenges and Airway Surgery. Things I wish I had not done
Moderator: A De Alarcon
A De Alarcon, M Gerber, D Preciado, J Russell
9:00-10:00 Challenges and Airway Surgery. Thinking outside the box
Moderator: M Rutter
M Rutter, K Sandu, T Valika
10:00-10:20 Health Break
10:20-12:00 Breakout Rooms (please select room A, room B, or Simulation)
Room A
10:20-11:10 Re-innervation for vocal cord paralysis - what is new?
Moderator: S Daniel
P Fayoux, S Rickert, Marshall Smith, M Wyatt
11:10-12:00 Bilateral vocal fold immobility - How do you chose?
Moderator: M Wyatt
A Al-Ammar, J Russell, Marshall Smith, S Daniel
Room B
10:20-11:10 Laryngomalacia, What is new, What are we missing
Moderator: S Rickert
D Thompson, J Simons, G Richter
11:10-12:00 Dysphagia in 2025 - Innovations in diagnosis and treatment
Moderator: S Sobol
P Willging, C Myer
Simulation (Models)
10:00-12:00 Simulation morning session: Flexible bronchoscopy, airway foreign body retrieval, laryngeal cleft repair, and slide tracheoplasty
12:00-13:00 Lunch (All groups are together – A, B, Simulation) – Bring your difficult cases
PM
13:00-15:00 Breakout Rooms (please select room A, room B, or Simulation)
Room A
13:00-13:50 Tracheomalacia - latest in diagnosis and treatment
Moderator B. Thierry
D von Allmen, B Thierry, J Siu, E Propst
13:50-14:40 Tracheal transplant / regenerative medicine
Moderator B. Thierry
T Chiang, B Thierry
14:40-15:00 Discussion
Room B
13:00-13:50 Aspiration challenges – Moderator N. Gonik
Moderators C Hart
Diagnosis of Aspiration, what is new? J Schroeder
Dysphagia in children with vocal cord dysfunction / paralysis J Schroeder
Approach to aspiration in CHARGE patients – C Hart
13:50-14:40 Non-anatomical aspiration - what to do?- El-Hakim
Moderator N. Gonik,H
Surgery for intractable aspiration – P Fayoux
14:40-15:00 Discussion
Simulation (Models)
13:00-15:00 Simulation afternoon session: graft carving, laryngotrachoplasty, cricotracheal resection
15:00-15:20 Health Break – Visit exhibition of simulation models
15:20-17:30 Breakout Rooms (please select room A or room B)
Room A
15:20-16:10 Difficult Airway Foreign body cases, Lasers and Fires
Moderator: C Zdanski, S Roy
C Zdanski, S Roy, Y Schwarz, T Marom
16:10-17:30 Revision laryngotracheal surgery - Tips, Tricks and Traps
Moderator: C Hart
K Sandu, M Rutter, Matthew Smith
Room B
15:20-16:10 Tracheo-esophageal fistula - Endoscopic and open approaches by the airway surgeon
Moderator: C. Richardson
C Hart, K Johnson, C. Richardson
16:10-17:00 Laryngeal Cleft - tips, tricks and traps
Moderator : Deepak Mehta
A De Alarcon, D Mehta, C Zdanski, S Kanotra
17:00-17:15 Artificial Intelligence and Pediatric Otolaryngology. Don’t miss the boat!
Moderator M Bromwich
T Valdez
17:15-17:30 How to take your innovation in airway surgery to the next level?
Moderator S Roy
M Bromwich
Simulation Program (Models) – Registration required
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 – 10:00 AM - 17:00 (running in parallel with the symposium)
Morning Session (10:00 – 12:00)
Flexible Bronchoscopy with Intervention
Lead: C Torres-Silva, A Shapiro
Airway Foreign Body Retrieval
Lead: B Thierry Faculty: A Deshpande, J Siu
Endoscopic Laryngeal Cleft Repair
Lead: K Johnson Faculty: M Bergeron, S Zhou
Slide Tracheoplasty
Lead: C Hart Faculty: D von Allmen, A Clements, M Rutter
Afternoon Session (13:00 – 15:00)
Airway Graft Carving
Laryngotracheoplasty
Cricotracheal Resection
Lead: A de Alarcon, E Propst, C Meyer
Faculty: M Gerber, C Liu, J Manoukian, K Sandhu, T Valika
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 – 7:00 AM – 11:30 (Day 2)
07:00-10:00 Breakout Rooms (please select room A or room B)
Room A
HOW I DO IT
7:00-8:00 International invited Panel - Moderator B Chun
My approach to posterior glottic stenosis, D White
Transcervical Epiglottopexy for epiglottic prolapse, S Konatra
Suture Lateralization of Vocal cord, R Mehanna
Endoscopic laryngotracheal reconstruction, A Alammar
Balloon dilation: tips, tricks, traps, S Sobol
Post intubation Insufficiency: A novel surgical treatment, J Russell
8:00-8:10 Discussion
8:10-9:10 International invited Panel - Moderator G Zalzal
One-step supraglottoplasty, H ElHakim
Dealing with complicated glottic stenosis, K Sandu
Open and Endoscopic Cleft Repair; tips and tricks, D Mehta
Laryntracheoplasty pearls, D White
GOSH protocol for ward decannulation of children with tracheostomy, M Wyatt
Strategies for recalcitrant Stenosis Following Pediatric LTR, D Preciado
9:10-9:20 Discussion
9:20-9:50 International invited Panel – Moderator K Sandu
Laryngeal re-innervartion, P Fayoux
Tips for a successful slide tracheoplasty, K Johnson
Esophageal approach to TEF repair, E Propst
9:50-10:00 Discussion
Room B
HOW I DO IT
7:00-8:00 International invited Panel – Moderator D Leonard, M Maksimoski
Flexible Bronchoscopy pearls and Tricks, C Torres-Silva
Endoscopic transseptal approach for choanal atresia repair, C Valdes
Safe FESS Surgery, Y Chan
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD), virtual rhinomanometry, and virtual surgery for neonatal congenital
nasal pyriform aperture stenosis, E Moreddu
Hypoglossal nerve stimulator Update, S Parikh
Persistent apnea post T&A, now what? C Heubi
8:00-8:10 Discussion
8:10-9:10 International invited Panel – Moderator M Soma
Use of spirometry in laryngotracheal stenosis, L AlMakoshi
Management of noncleft velopharyngeal insufficiency, N Jefferson
A non-breakable optic scope; this is not fiction, B Thierry
Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing, Lessons Learned, J Schroeder
Management of Suprastomal Collapse and Granulation Tissue, J Simons
Lymphangioma with airway compression – surgery or no? R Nicollas
9:10-9:20 Discussion
9:20-9:50 International invited Panel- Moderator A Deshpande
Slide Tracheoplasty for TEF, my experience, M Rutter
Injection Medialization in Infants with Vocal Fold Immobility, S Parikh
Tongue reduction in Beckwith Wiedemann Syndome, S Daniel
9:50-10:00 Discussion
10:00-10:20 Health Break
10:20-11:20 Breakout Rooms (please select room A or room B)
Room A
10:20-10:50 Challenging cases: Problems and solutions- Moderator : K Yann-Fuu
Bilateral vocal cord paralysis and posterior glottic stenosis
Type 3 laryngeal clefts
Tracheal A-frame deformity
K Yann-Fuu, M Rutter, C Richardson, T Valika
10:50-11:20 Iatrogenic Airway injuries. What to do and when?
Moderator G Liu
J D'Souza, T Valika, A Evans, J Wiedermann
Room B
10:20-10:50 Challenging cases: Problems and solutions
Moderator C Zdanski
My approach to Pierre Robin patients and novel technique to measure airway volumes in patients with
craniofacial abnormalities– S Rickert
Acute management and approach to long-term laryngotracheal complications after inhalation injury
S Vijayasekaran
10:50-11:20 CHAOS: To exit or not to exit
Moderator M McKenna
J McLevy Bazenella, A Tobey, J Wood, R. Mehanna
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