Capacity in Pediatric Otolaryngology Globally: A Rising Tide Lifts All Ships

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: 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.

OUTCOME OBJECTIVE 1: Explore concepts of sustainability building in global

OUTCOME OBJECTIVE 2: Discuss the steps necessary to develop a collaborative approach to improving global access and quality of care.

OUTCOME OBJECTIVE 3: Discuss the downstream effects of these efforts and how more can contribute to this work.

BACKGROUND STATEMENT: Through various global burden of disease studies, pediatric otolaryngology conditions represent many untreated and disability-inducing diseases. This panel will discuss global efforts how parallel efforts within a health system can improve perioperative pediatric care