ENT & Head & Neck Surgery
ईएनटी व हेड व नेक सर्जरी

ENT & Head & Neck Surgery/ ईएनटी व हेड व नेक सर्जरी

Reachable(8:30am to 4 pm) at 011-23966021-27,Ext- 436(General OPD), 633(Pvt OPD)

The department provides advanced elective and emergency medical and surgical care to a wide variety of diseases of the Ear, Nose, Sinuses, Oral cavity, Throat and Head & Neck region.

We are a team of  Senior Consultants ,Consultants, Senior resident doctors and well trained staff and have dedicated ward and 24x7 emergency services for our patients.

The Department is accredited by the National Board of Examinations and runs a post graduate DNB programme in Otorhinolaryngology .

Our routine out patient department takes care of patients with the following complaints

EAR AILMENTS

NOSE & SINUS AILMENTS

OPD PROCEDURES

We have facilities for minor ear microsurgical  procedures, Flexible direct laryngoscopy(FDL), Diagnostic nasal endoscopy in the OPD.

SURGERY

MICRO EAR SURGERIES like

• Tympanoplasty - surgery done to close the hole in the ear
• Mastoidectomy-surgery done to clear disease from middle ear and mastoid
• Facial nerve decompression- surgery done to reduce pressure on nerves in order to treat facial weakness due to facial nerve palsy
• Myringotomy and grommet insertion- done to aerate middle ear and also in the treatment of vertigo

THROAT  SURGERIES like

• Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy- both by conventional and coblation assissted technique
• Microlaryngeal surgeries- surgery done to remove nodule, cyst, polyp from the larynx

HEAD AND NECK SURGERIES like 

• Tracheal reconstruction- surgery done to treat narrowed or injured trachea.
• Thyroidectomy- surgery done to remove the diseased thyroid tissue
• Parathyroidectomy- surgery done to remove the diseased parathyroid tissue
• Slivary gland surgeries (submandibular, sublingual and parotid gland)
• Face and neck abscess drainage- drainage of pus from swelling in head and neck
• Head and neck tumour removal surgery and flap reconstruction- surgery done to remove tumour and reconstruction of the defect using local and distant flaps

NOSE AND SINUS SURGERIES like

• Fracture nasal bone reduction- surgery done to reduce post traumatic fracture nose
• Septoplasty- surgery done to straighten deviated septum of nose
• Turbinate reduction- both by conventional and coblation assisted technique
• Diagnostic nasal endoscopy (DNE) and cauterisation for epistaxis
• Conventional Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (FESS)- surgery done to open the blocked sinuses or removal of nasal polyp using endoscope and special instruments
• Extended FESS including skull base procedures ( in collaboration with Dept of Neurosurgery) regularly
• CSF leak repair-  surgery done to close defect in skull base using endoscope

SPECIAL AREAS OF INTEREST

Surgical Treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnoea
Since 2013 , the department has an active sleep surgery programme, for the management of obstructive sleep apnoea.
State of art sleep laboratory is available in the hospital.
The department provides facilities for sleep endoscopy (DISE) , multilevel sleep surgery and minimally invasive procedures .

Under a specially trained surgical team, latest surgical procedures like tongue base reduction and pharyngoplasty including barbed suturing techniques are carried out on a regular basis with excellent results.With the surgical treatment we have managed to relieve the airway obstruction without the help of machines.
In many patients where the patient is not able to tolerate CPAP therapy or does not get relief by it , multilevel sleep surgery offers good results. The common multilevel surgeries include, Barbed palato-pharyngoplasty, Expansion sphincter pharyngoplasty,Endoscopic coblation assisted midline glossectomy,Endoscopic epiglottoplasty, Thyrohyoidopexy.

AUDIOLOGY

The audiology section is manned by a well qualified , trained audiologist. Apart from routine audiometry tests we have facilities for