Full Description
'Principles and Practicalities of ENT' ensures that doctors of all levels are well equipped to approach common clinical scenarios encountered in ENT with confidence. Each section covers how to prepare for patients, includes key points in the history and examination, and how best to investigate and manage a wide variety of common ENT presentations and conditions. The material is structured to provide an easy reference including red flag and primary care sections to enable readers to know what to look out for when considering referrals. Inaddition to being a revision tool for medical students, doctors pursuing MRCS (ENT) examinations and higher surgical training in ENT, this book also serves as a useful aid for primary care physicians in their everyday diagnostics and referral practices.
Contents
Acknowledgment. Author biographies. List of abbreviations. Section I Emergency. Otology. Mastoiditis. Necrotising otitis externa. Sudden sensorineural hearing loss. Temporal bone trauma. External ear trauma. Rhinology. Epistaxis. Orbital haematoma. Periorbital cellulitis. Nasal trauma. Head and neck. Adult acute airway obstruction. Acute paediatric airway obstruction. Penetrating and blunt neck trauma. Upper aerodigestive tract foreign body. Deep space neck infections. Post-tonsillectomy bleed. Post-thyroidectomy haematoma. Section II Elective. Otology. Hearing loss and audiology. Otitis externa. Acute otitis media. Cholesteatoma. Dizziness and vertigo. Tinnitus. Facial nerve palsy. Rhinology. Rhinosinusitis. Anosmia. Head and neck. Head and neck malignancy. Malignancy of unknown primary. Dysphonia. Thyroid lump. Salivary gland mass. Dysphagia. Paediatrics. Paediatric hearing loss. Paediatric sleep disordered breathing. Index.
