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SKIDS Specialty Clinics

Pulmonology Clinic

Pediatric asthma management, recurrent wheeze, chronic cough.

The reframe

A cough that keeps returning needs a pattern, not another isolated syrup.

Children with recurrent cough or wheeze often move between acute visits. Parents remember nights of coughing, missed school, inhalers that helped or did not, and exercise they quietly stopped.

The pediatric task is to map triggers, severity, inhaler technique, allergy overlap, infection pattern, sleep breathing, and red flags. The goal is control, not repeated crisis.

The SKIDS Pulmonology Clinic keeps cough and wheeze inside a structured respiratory pathway with follow-up and escalation when needed.

Respiratory care works when cough, wheeze, sleep, allergy, and stamina are followed together.
What we screen for · what we treat

What the SKIDS Pulmonology Clinic brings into view.

Asthma and recurrent wheeze

Symptoms, triggers, night cough, exercise limitation, inhaler response, and control scores are reviewed.

Chronic cough

Duration, wet or dry pattern, red flags, allergy, reflux, infection, and environmental exposure are assessed.

Exercise and school stamina

Breathlessness, sports avoidance, fatigue, and school participation are included in the plan.

Inhaler technique and adherence

Device choice, spacer use, technique, and family confidence are checked repeatedly.

Our protocol

The SKIDS Pulmonology Protocol, in four steps.

01

Diagnostic confirmation

The pediatrician confirms the concern through history, examination, screening results, and the child’s context around chronic cough, wheeze, exercise symptoms, night cough, inhaler use, and school stamina.

02

Severity grading

Findings are separated into reassurance, monitor, treat, and refer pathways so families know what matters now.

03

Therapeutic plan

The plan may include parent guidance, medication, allied support, school recommendations, tests, or specialist referral depending on the child’s need.

04

Follow-up schedule

Follow-up is scheduled by risk and response, with the same life record carrying every change forward.

Specialty depth

This is not a one-visit opinion. It is a pediatric care continuum.

Screening plans are generic. Specialty clinic care is individualised after assessment. The SKIDS Pulmonology Clinic shows the breadth of what can be seen, treated, followed, and escalated under one pediatric home.

Breadth

4 connected concern areas, one child.

The clinic does not treat one isolated symptom. It connects parent observations, school signals, screening findings, examination, and the child’s growth story.

Depth

From finding to treatment to follow-up.

Care may include guidance, medicines, devices, therapy, diagnostics, allied support, school advice, or specialist escalation depending on the child’s need.

Care plan

Ask the SKIDS clinic manager for the right plan.

The clinic manager explains the continued-care options after assessment, including what is included, what needs referral, and how follow-up is tracked in Companion.

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The team

2 people care for your child.

SKIDS Pediatrician

Runs the protocol, examines the child, makes clinical decisions, and keeps the concern connected to the whole-child record.

Respiratory therapist

Supports inhaler technique, spacer education, trigger plans, symptom tracking, and follow-up readiness.

What happens, step by step

From screening flag to active care.

1

A signal is noticed

A parent, teacher, screening day, or clinic visit brings forward chronic cough, wheeze, exercise symptoms, night cough, inhaler use, and school stamina.

2

The pediatrician reviews the pattern

History, examination, screening results, growth, sleep, school context, and family concern are read together.

3

The child is matched to a continued-care plan

Simple concerns stay in primary pediatric care. Persistent, complex, or red-flag findings are escalated early.

4

The plan begins

The family leaves with clear next steps, home guidance, prescriptions or referrals where needed, and a record in Companion.

5

Follow-up protects continuity

Review cadence, reminders, outcomes, and school or allied inputs stay in the same life record.

Why a pediatrician

Why a SKIDS pediatrician with this protocol, not a scattered referral path.

Pulmonology Clinic concerns often begin as ordinary parent or school observations: chronic cough, wheeze, exercise symptoms, night cough, inhaler use, and school stamina. A pediatrician is the right first interpreter because the question is not only one organ or one symptom. It is how the child is growing, sleeping, learning, eating, playing, and coping.

SKIDS keeps primary pediatric specialty care close to the child while being clear about escalation. When a specialist is needed, the referral is coordinated with context instead of sending the family away with a fragment.

What the data says

Why this matters.

Home

Parent observations are included in the Pulmonology Clinic pathway, not left outside the visit.

SKIDS whole-child care model
School

Teacher and school-day signals can be brought into the same pediatric record when relevant.

SKIDS school clinic model
Clinic

Screening, protocol, follow-up, and escalation stay connected under one pediatric home.

SKIDS protocol library
For families

Different from a fragmented referral.

A one-off visit may name the problem. A SKIDS specialty clinic keeps the child inside a care pathway: what was found, what was started, what changed, when to review, and when escalation is needed.

For pediatricians

Different from sending the child away too early.

SKIDS gives pediatricians specialty protocols, documentation, devices, allied coordination, and referral logic so more care can remain close to the trusted pediatric home.

Continue Pulmonology Clinic care with SKIDS.

Specialty clinic care plans are individualised. Contact the SKIDS clinic manager to understand continued care, inclusions, referrals, and follow-up for this clinic.

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