Presentations
- Cleft lip and/or palate
- Ear abnormalities:
- Neck abnormalities:
- lumps
- malposition, such as:
- Obstructive apnoea
- Stridor
Conditions
- Choanal atresia
- Congenital laryngeal abnormalities
- Cystic hygroma
- Genetic conditions involving ear, nose, and throat abnormalities
- Laryngomalacia
- Macroglossia, micrognathia, and retrognathia, including in the context of Pierre Robin
sequence
- Sensorineural deafness
- Tracheoesophageal fistula
- Vocal cord palsy
For each presentation and condition, Advanced Trainees will know how to:
Synthesise
- recognise the clinical presentation
- identify relevant epidemiology, prevalence, pathophysiology, and clinical science
- take a comprehensive clinical history
- conduct an appropriate examination
- establish a differential diagnosis
- plan and arrange appropriate investigations
- consider the impact of illness and disease on patients and their quality of life when
developing a management plan
Manage
- provide evidence-based management
- prescribe therapies tailored to patients’ needs and conditions
- recognise potential complications of disease and its management, and initiate
preventative strategies
- involve multidisciplinary teams
Consider other factors
- identify individual and social factors and the impact of these on diagnosis and
management
Presentations
- Congenital problems, including:
For each presentation and condition, Advanced Trainees will know how to:
Synthesise
- recognise the clinical presentation
- identify relevant epidemiology, prevalence, pathophysiology, and clinical science
- take a comprehensive clinical history
- conduct an appropriate examination
- establish a differential diagnosis
- plan and arrange appropriate investigations
- consider the impact of illness and disease on patients and their quality of life when
developing a management plan
Manage
- provide evidence-based management
- prescribe therapies tailored to patients’ needs and conditions
- recognise potential complications of disease and its management, and initiate
preventative strategies
- involve multidisciplinary teams
Consider other factors
- identify individual and social factors and the impact of these on diagnosis and
management
- Causes of congenital deafness syndromes
- Congenital malformations of the ear, and associated syndromes
- Embryology of cleft lip and palate, and associated syndromes
Investigations
- Airway and oesophageal assessment by endoscopy
- Investigations for hearing impairment, including hearing screening programs
- Airway and feeding problems associated with cleft palate and Pierre Robin sequence
- Delivery procedures, such as ex-utero intrapartum (EXIT), if the airway is thought to be
significantly and critically compromised in utero by the congenital lesion
- Involvement of multidisciplinary team members for diagnosis and short- and long-term management,
such as:
- audiologist
- ear, nose, and throat surgeon
- plastic surgeon
- speech pathologist
