Airway pathology in the premature - our experience in a tertiary paediatric ENT centre

Abstract

CONCLUSION• Premature patients account for a significant proportion of the workload within our tertiary centre, likely due to improving neonatal care and survival in pre-term infants. • We suggest that in premature patients presenting with symptoms of airway pathology, early paediatric ENT evaluation should be arranged, with a low threshold for MLB. • Although prematurity was found to be associated with discovery of multi-level airway pathology, sub-group analysis did not suggest that there is a statistically significant relationship with grade of prematurity.