Pediatric Complex Case: Dog Bite of the Neck
Pediatric Complex Case: Dog Bite of the Neck is a TCAA course from a previous live webinar which provides an in-depth look at the successful treatment of a dog bite in a pediatric patient.
Estimated completion time: 60 minutes
Target Audience: The Trauma healthcare team and other clinical departments
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, the learner should be better able to:
1. Describe management of a complex penetrating injury to the neck
2. Understand the roles of each of the specialists and subspecialists in the management of a complex penetrating injury to the neck3. Generate a discussion regarding different options for complex penetrating injury to the neck in children
4. Present the outcome of this complex penetrating injury to the neck
Faculty Presenters: Ericka King, Randall Holland, Wesley Hart, and Jonathan Ratcliff
Moderator: Tony Escobar
Faculty Bios:
Mauricio A. “Tony” Escobar, Jr. MD, FACS, FAAP, is a Pediatric Surgeon and Medical Director of Pediatric Surgery and Pediatric Trauma at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma, WA where he recently completed two terms as Chief of Staff. He has numerous academic and professional honors, including publishing over 40 peer-reviewed articles, 14 clinical textbook chapters, and presentations at multiple national and international surgical meetings, and serves on numerous professional committees in the field – and as chair of our TCAA Pediatric Committee. He is board certified in General Surgery with added special qualifications in Pediatric Surgery. Chair of the Pediatric Committee of the Trauma Center Association of America. His academic interests lie in screening for child abuse and bioethics. He led a PTS team in publishing an extensive review of NAT screening in the Journal of Trauma, co-authored the American Pediatric Surgical Association Position Statement on the Role of the Pediatric Surgeon in screening for child abuse, and recently co-lead the taskforce to develop the Child Abuse section of the Best Practice Guideline for Trauma Center Recognition of Family Violence: Child Abuse, Elderly Abuse, and Intimate Partner Violence by the American College of Surgeon Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP ®) and the Pediatric Trauma Society.
Dr. Wesley Hart is an anesthesiologist at Mary Bridge’s Children’s/TGH since finishing his training in July 1991. He has been involved in med staff, anesthesia group (TAA) and OR leadership most of this time and his practice mainly involves pediatric anesthesia and cardiac anesthesia.
Dr. Jonathan Ratcliff is a vascular surgeon practicing in the Puget Sound region of Washington state working with the Pulse Heart Institute of Multicare Health System. He is board certified in General and Vascular surgery. His training included medical school at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, General Surgery residency at the University of South Florida, and a Vascular Surgery fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Dr. Randall Holland is a board-certified pediatric surgeon who treats children with a wide array of conditions, from appendicitis and thyroid, to cancer and kidney issues. His clinical interests are neonatal surgery, endocrine surgery, biliary disease in newborns and children, and chest wall abnormalities. Away from work he enjoys karate, gardening, cooking, hiking and camping with his family.
Dr. Ericka King attended medical school at the University of Washington, graduating with Honors in 2005. She went on to residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and a clinical and research fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 2012, she joined the faculty at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, rising to the rank of Associate Professor of Pediatric Otolaryngology. She joined the staff at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in 2019. Her clinical practice compasses the breadth of pediatric otolaryngology, with particular interest in pediatric obstructive sleep apnea, sensorineural hearing loss, long term speech and hearing outcomes in hearing impaired children, and cochlear implantation.