1st Edition
Principles and Practicalities of ENT How to approach common clinical scenarios
‘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.
Acknowledgment
Author biographies
List of abbreviations
Section I Emergency
Otology
1. Mastoiditis
2. Necrotising otitis externa
3. Sudden sensorineural hearing loss
4. Temporal bone trauma
5. External ear trauma
Rhinology
6. Epistaxis
7. Orbital haematoma
8. Periorbital cellulitis
9. Nasal trauma
Head and neck
10. Adult acute airway obstruction
11. Acute paediatric airway obstruction
12. Acute and blunt neck trauma
13. Upper aerodigestive tract foreign body
14. Deep space neck infections
15. Post-tonsillectomy bleed
16. Post-thyroidectomy haematoma
Section II Elective
Otology
17. Hearing loss and audiology
18. Otitis externa
19. Acute otitis media
20. Cholesteatoma
21. Dizziness and vertigo
22. Tinnitus
23. Facial nerve palsy
Rhinology
24. Rhinosinusitis
25. Anosmia
Head and neck
26. Head and neck malignancy
27. Malignancy of unknown primary
28. Dysphonia
29. Thyroid lump
30. Salivary gland mass
31. Dysphagia
Paediatrics
32. Paediatric hearing loss
33. Paediatric sleep disordered breathing
Index
Biography
Mr Keshav K. Gupta MBBS, BSc (Hons), MRCS (ENT) is a core surgical trainee in the West Midlands Deanery who has secured a competitive ENT ST3 post at national selection on his first attempt. He will be an ENT registrar at the time of publication. He graduated from Imperial College London in 2017 with multiple prizes and distinctions. Keshav has been heavily involved in teaching as an undergraduate and postgraduate and has designed and implemented many teaching courses. He has also published more than 15 papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented his work at national and international conferences, winning prizes in the process. Dr Divya Vatish MBBS, BSc (Hons), DRCOGis currently a GP trainee in the West Midlands Deanery. She graduated in 2017 from Bart’s and The London Medical school with prizes and distinctions. Divya has a keen interest in teaching having secured a 1st class honours in her BSc in Medical Education. Mr Karan Jolly MBChB, DOHNS, FRCS (ORL-HNS) has recently completed his training in the West Midlands Deanery and is currently on a world-renowned Rhinology and Anterior Skull Base fellowship in Vancouver. Karan has been actively involved in research over his training years with over 40 peer reviewed publications, book chapter publications and national awards including the inaugural Sir Cecil Wakeley medal. He is also very actively involved in training and education, being a faulty member on several courses and co-authoring on a FRCS VIVA revision book. Mr Duncan Bowyer BSc (Hons), MBBS (Hons), MRCS, DOHNS, FRCS (ORL HNS), FFSTEd is a Consultant ENT Surgeon at Shrewsbury & Telford Hospital NHS Trust. Alongside his clinical practice he has a varied medical education portfolio; he is an undergraduate lecturer at Keele Medical School, Training Programme Director for Otolaryngology Higher Surgical Training in the West Midlands, examiner for the DOHNS examination, interviewer for Otolaryngology National Selection, course director and faculty on numerous skills courses, and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers at RCS Edinburgh.
