Pediatric Otolaryngology for Primary Care

Scott R Schoem, MD, MBA, FAAP is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine. He performed his surgical internship and otolaryngology residency at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD and his fellowship in pediatric otolaryngology at National Children's Medical Center in Washington, DC. He founded and has been Director of Otolaryngology at Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford, CT since 1999. Dr Schoem is a Professor of Clinical Otolaryngology at UCONN, the Past President of the CT ENT Society, and the Past Chair of the Section on Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). He is the President-elect of the CT AAP state chapter. Dr Schoem is active in children's healthcare advocacy and policy. He is a board member of ENT PAC at the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. He has extensive experience lobbying both at the state and federal level to members of Congress. David Darrow, MD, DDS, FAAP is a Professor of Otolaryngology and Pediatrics at the Eastern Virginia Medical School, and an attending otolaryngologist at the Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters in Norfolk, VA.  After receiving degrees in both dentistry and medicine, Dr Darrow completed residency in otolaryngology at the University of California, San Diego and a fellowship in pediatric otolaryngology at the Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago.  Dr Darrow's primary clinical and research interests are in the areas of otitis media, tonsillitis, and vascular birthmarks.  He is the founder and co-director of the EVMS Center for Hemangiomas and Vascular Birthmarks, a multidisciplinary treatment program for patients with these disorders.  He has lectured locally and nationally on proper diagnosis and management of middle ear disease in children.  He has also written extensively on indications for tonsil and adenoid surgery.  He has served on panels that developed guidelines for pediatric tonsillectomy, pediatric acute sinusitis, and infantile hemangiomas.  Dr Darrow is the immediate past president of the Society for Ear, Nose, and Throat Advances in Children.  He is a former Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Otolaryngology and has served on the executive committee of the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology.

Section 1 Ear and Temporal Bone
Chapter 1 Neonatal Hearing Screening, Hearing Loss, and Treatment for Hearing Loss
Chapter 2 Management and Treatment of Patients with Acute and Chronic Otitis Media
Chapter 3 Facial Paralysis
Chapter 4 Diseases and Anomalies of the Auricle and External Auditory Canal
Chapter 5 Complications of Eustachian Tube Dysfunction: Retractions, Perforations, and Cholesteatoma
Section 2 Nose and Sinus
Chapter 6 Neonatal Nasal Obstruction
Chapter 7 Rhinosinusitis
Chapter 8 Epistaxis
Chapter 9 Pediatric Nasal and Facial Fractures
Section 3 Oropharynx
Chapter 10 Disorders of the Tonsils and Adenoids
Chapter 11 Pediatric Oropharyngeal Trauma
Chapter 12 Cleft Lip and Palate
Section 4 Neck
Chapter 13 Neck Masses and Adenopathy
Chapter 14 Deep Neck Space Infections
Chapter 15 Salivary Gland Disorders in Children
Section 5 Airway and Swallowing
Chapter 16 Stridor in Infants and Children
Chapter 17 Feeding Disorders and Ankyloglossia
Chapter 18 Gastroesophageal and Laryngopharyngeal Reflux
Chapter 19 Speech and Voice Disorders
Chapter 20 Drooling and Aspiration
Chapter 21 Chronic Cough
Chapter 22 Aerodigestive Tract Foreign Bodies
Chapter 23 Pediatric Tracheostomy
Section 6 General
Chapter 24 Otolaryngologic Disorders in Down Syndrome
Chapter 25 Vascular Malformations of the Head and Neck