ENT

Overview

- Goal
  Main goal of ENT department is to treat the patients of common ENT problems, treat them surgically if required & restoring patients with hearing impairment with provisional of hearing aids.

- Objective
  Knowledge
  1. Understand the basic pathophysiology & management of common ENT diseases and emergencies.
  2. Appropriate & judicial use of commonly used drugs in ENT, keeping in mind their adverse reactions.
  3. Perform common investigative procedures and their interpretation.

- Skill
  1. Examination & Diagnosis of common ENT problems including malignant & premalignant lesions of head & Neck.
  2. Manage ENT problems at level & prompt referral to the tertiary center when required.
  3. Perform minor surgical procedure like ear syringing, ear dressing, nasal packing, removal of foreign bodies from nose & ear.
  4. Assisting in procedure like endoscopies, tracheostomy.

Departmental Facilities
1. OPD services : The OPD runs daily from 9 am to 1 pm except Sundays & public holidays, Here in OPD all common ENT problems are promptly managed and minor procedures like ear syringing, Foreign body removal from ear & nose , Aural toilet
2. Indoor patient care: All patient requiring surgical treatment admitted in wards & proper pre operative investigations & pre operative care provided by doctors & nursing staff
3. Procedures
  - Tympanoplasty for CSOM
  - Septoplasty for DNS
  - Tonsillectomy for chronic tonsillitis
  - Reduction of nasal bone fractures
  - Biopsy of suspicious malignancies
  - Microscopic examination
  - Ear suturing for split ear
  - Thyroidectomises for diffuse thyroid swellings

1.About the Department

Clinical:

Units: 1

No. of Wards: 1

Beds: 30

OPD hours: 9 to 1 & 3 to 5

Clinics: 1. Cancer clinic

1. 1. Rhinology clinic – Allergy
  2. Otology clinics — Tinnitus & Deafness, Vertigo
  3. Voice clinic

Original Article – Referred otalgia: Epidemiological profile; International journal of otorhinolaryngology and head and neck surgery
Original Article – Role of stroboscopy in diagnosis of laryngeal disorder, International journal of otorhinolaryngology and head and neck surgery
Original Article – Sialendoscopy: Our experience
Original Article -Study of radiological findings in high resolution computed tomography (HRCT) temporal bone in squamous chronic otitis media (COM): A hospital based cross sectional study.

Under Dr Vishala Pandya one project of undergraduate student is accepted in ICMR for research.
Dr Hiren Soni was invited as a guest speaker in Rajasthan state conference in 2018. He delivered talk on sialendoscopy.