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The department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck surgery at Welcare Hospital, Ernakulam has modern facilities and adopts many latest procedures. Our department is open for all working days, to provide continuous care to patients. The hospital has full-fledged procedure room equipped with otologic microscope, nasal endoscopes and a video-laryngoscope to aid in comprehensive and accurate diagnosis. Inpatient care is provided in private rooms and for this we have separate male and female wards manned by well trained nurses. The testing, diagnosis and treatment of ear, nose and throat disorders, as well as areas of head and neck are carried out by our ent department in close association with the specialties of neurology, neurosurgery, pulmonology, radiology, anaesthesia and internal medicine. The hospital is well equipped with latest diagnostic and surgical instruments, specialized for ent care and treatment.
- Nasal endoscopy
- Videolaryngoscopy
- Flexible fibre optic nasopharyngolaryngoscopy
- Microscopy of the ear/ foreign body removal
- Intratympanic gentamycin administration
- Myringotomy and grommet insertion
- Positional testing and epley’s manoeuvre
- Ear piercing and ear lobe repair
- Cauterization for nasal bleed
- Pure Tone Audiometry and special tests
- Tympanometry
- OAE with neonatal screening
- Hearing aid trial and fitting
- Speech and swallow therapy
- FESS for sinusitis, polyps, epistaxis, benign and malignant nasal tumors
- Septoplasty
- CSF leak repair
- Skull base surgeries
- Endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR)
- Arterial ligations (sphenopalatine, ethmoidal, maxillary and external carotid) for epistaxis
- Myringotomy
- Tympanoplasty
- Mastoidectomy
- Stapedectomy
- Facial nerve decompression
- Ossiculoplasty
- Thyroplasty
- Microlaryngeal surgeries – laser cordotomy, arytenoidectomy, anterior cricoid split and tracheal reconstruction and anastomoses.
- Endoscopic removal of benign tumors of larynx and trachea
- Endoscopic video assisted adenoidectomy
- Coablation assisted tonsillectomy
- Evaluation and management of laryngomalacia, laryngotracheal stenosis and foreign body removal from bronchus & esophagus.
- Middle ear implant surgery
- Surgery for treatment of snoring (osas) such as uvulo palato pharyngoplasty (uppp) expansion sphincteroplasty tongue base reduction and coablator assisted uvulo palatoplasty
- Adult and pediatric tracheostomy
- Surgery for vocal cord paralysis
- Tumors of throat and larynx
- Tumors of neck
- Salivary gland surgeries
- Thyroidectomy
- Surgery for subglottic and tracheal stenosis
- Surgery for swallowing disorders