Paediatric ENT Surgery Fellow trained from Starship Children’s Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand.
Dr Felicia Tshite
Dr Felicia
About Dr Felicia Tshite
I am Fellowship trained
from Starship Children’s Hospital, in Auckland, New Zealand.
Fellowship allows one to sub-specialise in their field of interest, to have an enormous exposure in that field, create lifelong international connections and have access to global mentors.
WHICH BABIES/CHILDREN
need referral?
- Any child dependant on a tracheotomy deserves a chance to decannulate, which can be easy or very complex
- Any child with any form of noisy breathing from birth or later on, at rest or triggered
- A child with increased work of breathing struggling to feed and/or turning blue
- A child who coughs and/aspirates during feeds
- Sleep disordered breathing with/without snoring -with/without pauses at night and with/without mouth breathing
- Child with voice changes
- Unexplained chronic cough or wheeze not responding to asthma treatment
- Concerning drooling with coughs, affecting feeding and quality of life
- Large tonsils affecting breathing with/without recurrent infections
- Syndromic children with craniofacial malformations are most likely to present with multiple levels of obstruction
- Any child with history of intubation is likely to have airway issues
- And many more ….. if you are not sure, ASK
How Can I
help you?
- Appointment Bookings (8h30am to 4pm)
- Johannesburg office: 011 480 4297
- Cape Town office: 021 002 5601
- Private consults from colleagues in NICU/PICU etc and Co-management of your patients in your ward or in theatre , if there is a need to do a comprehensive Diagnostic Laryngo-trachea-bronchoscopy, and/or manage and plan.