International Pediatric Otolaryngology Group (IPOG) management recommendations: Pediatric tracheostomy decannulation

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
• ² Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA; Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ³ Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA; Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
• ⁶ Department of Otolaryngology, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Pediatric Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital of Lille, Lille, France.
• ⁸ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
• ⁹ Department of Otology and Laryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ¹⁰ Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine and Children's Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
• ¹¹ Children's Health Airway Management Program, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
• ¹² Otolaryngology, Birmingham Children's Hospital, UK.
• ¹³ Division of Otolaryngology, University of Cape Town & Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ¹⁴ Pediatric Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Pediatric Specialty Partners, San Diego, CA, USA.
• ¹⁵ Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ¹⁶ Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Hassenfeld Children's Hospital, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY, USA.
• ¹⁷ Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX, USA.
• ¹⁸ Department of Paediatric Otolaryngology, Children's Health Ireland, Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland.
• ¹⁹ Airway Unit, Department of Otolaryngology, Lausanne University Hospital, CHUV, Switzerland.
• ²⁰ Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA.
• ²¹ Paediatric Otolaryngology, Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick, NSW, Australia.
• ²² Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, University of Porto Medical School, S. Joao Hospital Center, Porto, Portugal.
• ²³ Department of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Necker Children's Hospital, Paris, France.
• ²⁴ Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
• ²⁵ Pediatric Surgery Department, Bambino Gesu Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy.
• ²⁶ Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology, MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital, Charleston, SC, USA.
• ²⁷ Paediatric Otolaryngology, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, England, UK.
• ²⁸ Division of Otolaryngology, Children's National Medical Center, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA.
• ²⁹ Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery and Pediatrics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
• ³⁰ Department of Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadephia, PA, USA.