Colledge Fund Boosts ENT Surgery

Diodes Laser in Ent Surgery

LASER in the otology field was used to perform tympanotomy and for the placement of ventilation tubes, vaporization of horny pearls and adhesion in the eardrum, remobilisations and ossicular modelings, “spot-welding”; in this field the most argued area of applicability of LASER is the surgery of the otosclerosis. The otosclerosis treatment with surgical LASER started with Perkins and Di Bartolo...

Laryngeal mask airway in ENT surgery.

Kartagener's syndrome--anaesthetic considerations for ENT surgery.

Kartagener's syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder presenting a triad of sinusitis, bronchicetasis and situs inversus with dextrocardia. It occurs in 50% of patients with situs inversus. The most important anesthetic implications of Kartegener's syndrome surgery are assessement of pulmonary and cardiac structure and function. We present a case of 43-year-old woman with chronic rhinosi...

Review Articles Tissue engineering and ENT surgery

Tissue engineering is the development of biological substitutes for the repair and regeneration of damaged tissues. We explain the principles of this emerging Želd of biotechology. The present and potential applications of tissue engineering technologies in ENT surgery are then reviewed.

Cancellations in day-case ENT surgery

Introduction: In excess of two million operations are performed in a day-case/ambulatory setting in the United Kingdom each year. Cancellations in elective surgery cost the National Health Service (NHS) over £265 million per year. Methodology: This is a retrospective study in which the total number of elective ENT operations performed at The Guy’s & St. Thomas’ NHS Trust in a 6-month period wer...