Safety in ENT surgery

Multi-Level Safety Concept for Robot Assisted ENT Surgery

During image guided interventions the surgeon depends on feedback provided by the surgical support system, in some cases exclusively. Because image guided surgery consists of a number stages during which errors may be introduced, the final system accuracy and robustness can be compromised without knowledge of the user. These errors become particularly important in cases in which extremely high ...

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.

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...

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...