Amjad Tobia

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MD

Investigator and Pediatric ENT Surgeon, BC Children's Hospital

We conduct research projects with children with a primary goal to improve clinical care for families. One of our studies will evaluate if a home parent-taken 2 minute video is a good enough indicator of severity of sleep apnea compared to full sleep study in hospital. Another study will examine if we can predict, based on body measures, the nasopharynx depth. This may help when a swab test to sample the nasopharynx is being performed.

Academic Affiliations

  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Otolaryngology, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
  • Research Theme: Evidence to Innovation
  • Research Group(s): Clinical Practice, Outcomes and Innovation; Global Health and Innovations; Origins of Child Health and Disease

Contact Information

Location

4480 Oak Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6H 3V4

Predicting Nasopharyngeal Depth in Children Using Body Measurements: A Pilot Study

Journal of Otolaryngology Head Neck Surgery Le Journal D Oto Rhino Laryngologie Et De Chirurgie Cervico Faciale

He, M. and Huang, C. and Dorling, M. and Mwakisimba, F. and Pianosi, K. and Chadha, N.K. and Tobia, A.

DOI: 10.1177/19160216251390320

Minimally Invasive Management of Neonatal Piriform Fossa Sinus Tract: A Scoping Review

Laryngoscope

Tobia, A. and Cherukupalli, A. and Liu, A.Q. and Chadha, N.K.

DOI: 10.1002/lary.31231

Endoscopic treatment in pediatric patients with recurrent and H-type tracheoesophageal fistulas " A systematic review and meta-analysis

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

Tobia, A. and Luque, C.G. and Leitmeyer, K. and Dorling, M. and Chadha, N.K.

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2023.111541

Tracheal inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor presenting as an obstructive pediatric foreign body

Clinical Case Reports

Alice Q. Liu and Naima Kotadia and Amjad Tobia and Jonathan H. Rayment and Simon Whyte and Mark Felton

DOI: 10.1002/ccr3.6583

12 / 2022

Hearing Outcomes with Percutaneous and Transcutaneous BAHA Technology in Conductive and Mixed Hearing Loss

Otology and Neurotology

Tobia, A. and Yehudai, N. and Khnifes, R. and Shpak, T. and Roth, O. and Khayr, R. and Luntz, M.

DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0000000000003231

Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Presenting as Auditory Neuropathy Hearing Disorder in a Child

The Laryngoscope

DOI: 10.1002/lary.28150

11 / 2019

Acute mastoiditis: 20 years of experience with a uniform management protocol

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2019.07.014

10 / 2019

Procalcitonin and interleukin 6 for predicting blood culture positivity in sepsis.

The American journal of emergency medicine

Naffaa M and Makhoul BF and Tobia A and Kaplan M and Aronson D and Azzam ZS and Saliba W

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2013.12.058 PubMed: 24512888

05 / 2014

Brain natriuretic peptide at discharge as a predictor of 6-month mortality in acute decompensated heart failure.

The American journal of emergency medicine

Naffaa M and Makhoul BF and Tobia A and Jarous M and Kaplan M and Aronson D and Saliba W and Azzam ZS

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2013.10.002 PubMed: 24210886

01 / 2014

Interleukin-6 at discharge predicts all-cause mortality in patients with sepsis.

The American journal of emergency medicine

Naffaa M and Makhoul BF and Tobia A and Kaplan M and Aronson D and Saliba W and Azzam ZS

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2013.06.011 PubMed: 23896015

09 / 2013

“I took this video of my child sleeping”: Are parent-recorded smartphone videos useful in predicting the severity of sleep disordered breathing in children?

In this study we are evaluating if a 2-minute parent-captured smartphone video and clinical history can better predict the patient’s obstructive AHI score compared to clinical history alone. Videos and clinical history will be reviewed by 3 otolaryngologists that will try to predict the AHI score. This will be compared to the gold standard sleep study AHI score.

Can We Predict Nasopharynx Distance in Children For Swab Testing? A Pilot Study

The nasopharynx swab test is a commonly performed procedure for diagnosis of viral upper respiratory infections. The goal of this study is to explore surface landmark measurements in children (finger length, height…) can be used to accurately predict nasopharynx depth through a simple predictive formula. This could then be used to guide healthcare professionals in obtaining reliable bedside nasopharynx swabs.

Grants

Evidence to Innovation Seed Grant 2022/23 for the study: “I took this video of my child sleeping”: Are parent-recorded smartphone videos useful in predicting the severity of sleep disordered breathing in children?

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