Family satisfaction with telemedicine follow-up after pediatric plastic surgery.

Objective: One issue faced at institutions that serve a vast area is patients' ability to travel for perioperative care. Telemedicine is an innovative way of providing care while removing the inconvenience of travel or the hindrance of cost associated with travel. We initiated telemedicine as an option for certain postoperative encounters and assessed patient family satisfaction with this novel approach.

Cleft Care Packages and the Impact on Postoperative Care Following a Primary Cleft Lip Repair.

Objective: To provide caregivers with all the resources needed to care for a surgical site following a primary cleft lip repair and evaluate its efficacy on postoperative care.

Setting/participants: Caregivers of infants ages 3 to 6 months with a cleft lip and/or palate undergoing a primary repair at the Texas Children's Hospital.

Methods: Packages were given to caregivers at discharge following repair.

Airway Obstruction Management With Mandibular Distraction and Matthews Device in Pruzansky III Craniofacial Microsomia.

Patients with craniofacial microsomia (CFM) may present with severely malformed mandibles resulting in secondary tongue-based airway obstruction. While surgical management of clinically significant airway obstruction in these patients often involves mandibular distraction osteogenesis (MDO), patients with Pruzansky III CFM typically require additional costochondral bone grafting. In this report, the authors present the successful surgical management of airway obstruction and severe obstructive sleep apnea using a cranio-mandibular fixator (Matthews device) combined with MDO in a 4-year-old female patient with Goldenhar syndrome and associated Pruzansky III CFM.