OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY

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About Department

The Department of Otorhinolaryngology provides diagnosis and treatment for problems of the ear, nose and throat, and tumours of the head and neck area. Masters degree (M.S. E.N.T.) was recognized by MCI in 1968. Facilities in the Department include microsurgery of the ear, treatment of hearing loss, and rehabilitation of the hearing-impaired, rhinology and sinus diseases, laryngology and throat diseases and management of vocal disorders. This Department also manages the patients of Head and Neck cancer which is so prevalent in this part of country due to habit of Gutkha chewing and Bidi smoking.

List of Previous Teachers: Dr. M.Shrinivas, Dr. C. B. Patel, Dr. Ruby Udwadaia, Dr. Ravi S. Tiwari, Dr. Archana A. Desai.

PG Intake Capacity  - Total 06

M.S. ENT                – 06 seats

Hospital Services

The Department of Otorhinolaryngology at the Sir Sayajirao General Hospital is totally dedicated to serve the poor patients.

 Patients are treated on outdoor and indoor basis. Outdoor patients are treated in OPD 15 and indoor patients in ward 19.
 The department has six working days. It is divided in two teams to run OPD and Operation Theatre simultaneously.
 Emergency services are provided 24hrs and 7days a week including national holidays.

 

Infrastructure	Description
OPD 15	-          Consultant Chamber -          Outdoor Examination space. -          Minor Procedure room-        -      Endoscopic suite
Ward 19	-          Male ward -          Female ward -          Isolation room -          Dressing room -          Speech therapy and Audiology Laboratory -          Resident room -          Nursing room
E.N.T. Operation Theatre	-          Operation theatre -          Outdoor procedure room -          Recovery room -          Special room

 

SURGERIES OF THE EAR
 

Microsurgery of the ear is done for otosclerosis, trauma, chronic otitis media, secretary otitis media, cholesteatoma & its complications, tympanoplasties, meatoplasties etc.
 

ENDOSCOPIC SINUS SURGERY AND RHINOLOGY
 

Endoscopic diagnosis and Endoscopic Sinus Surgery for chronic sinusitis, nasal polyposis, orbital decompression, endonasal DCR is being done regularly and all state of art equipments are available( all nasal endoscopes, microdebrider,etc). More than 600 patient of mucormycosis admitted and operated in last 2 years.
 

LARYNGOLOGY AND HEAD-NECK SURGERIES
 

Surgical and medical services are provided to patients having oral cavity, oropharynx, laryngopharynx and laryngeal pathologies. Surgical procedures include tonsillectomy, microlaryngeal surgery, palatoplasty, sleep apnoea surgery, thyroid, branchial apparatus and salivary gland surgeries.
 

HEAD & NECK CANCER
 

Patients with the cancer of the head and neck particularly carcinoma of the upper aero digestive tract, salivary glands and thyroid glands are also managed. A multidisciplinary approach including biopsies, fine needle aspiration cytology to these problems is adopted. Surgical procedures performed are laryngectomy, maxillectomy, neck dissections (radical neck dissections, modified radical neck dissections .), commando-operation. Rehabilitation through surgical reconstruction and speech and voice therapy is also provided.
 

EMERGENCY SERVICES

Life saving procedures on tracheobronchial tree, foreign body removal from air & food passages, trauma and epistaxis are some of the services provided in emergency 24 hrs. Infact many pediatric patients with foreign body bronchus are attended too.
 

NEUROTOLOGY

Neurotology services include diagnosis and treatment of patients with balance problems, facial nerve disorders and hearing loss caused by inner ear damage, nerve problems or tumors of the ear and related structures. Our department is recognized center for Cochlear implant Under ADIP and RBSK schemes. Cochlear implant being done regularly at our department regularly along with post op speech therapy.
Till date 40 cochlear implants has been successfully done at our department.

 

AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-THERAPY
 

Evaluation and treatment services are provided for adults with speech, language, swallowing, balance, tinnitus and hearing problems. Services offered include, but are not limited to basic audiologic testing, hearing aid recommendations and fittings, speech/language assessments and therapy, dysphasia testing with therapy and augmentative alternate communication therapies for those who cannot speak. The audiology and speech rehabilitation services are provided along with ENT OPD services at the centre. Our Department is the district nodal centre for the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Deafness.

 

BRAIN STEM EVOKED RESPONSE AUDIOMETERY

The most objective test to detect hearing loss, as early as three months of age, is also available.

 

Teaching Facilities

This Department has adequate teaching facilities for both undergraduates and postgraduates. It has a seminar room for seminars & lectures.

Undergraduate Teaching –

This institution has 250 undergraduate admissions every year. It gives a very comprehensive schedule for training undergraduate students in the field of ENT- Head and Neck surgery. The training includes theoretical teaching with main thrust on bedside clinical and surgical training. Besides, there is a healthy academic atmosphere for free discussion on clinical cases among faculty and resident staff.

 Integrated lectures in Medical College once a week covering all topics relevant to the curriculum.

 Active participation of Postgraduate students for Undergraduate teaching.

 In 10 weeks of clinical posting students are taught :

 History taking & symptmatology
 Examination of patient.
 Minor procedures like anterior nasal packing, fine needle aspiration cytology, biopsy etc.
 Various surgeries like tracheostomy, tonsillectomy, myringotomy, septal and other nasal surgeries.

Postgraduate Teaching –

Our institution has six postgraduate admissions every year.

 Teachers & Postgraduate students work together in OPD & Operation theatre which provides continuous learning to the students.

 Detailed orientation program, personal touch for student growth and learning especially for surgical techniques. Continuous “top down” learning.

 Seminars, journal article presentation, case presentation and assignments as formal teaching. Use of LCD, OHP and slide projectors by students and teachers.

 There is temporal bone dissection laboratory where postgraduates do their practice for various ear surgeries on cadaveric temporal bone.

Research, consultancy and extension

• Mandatory submission of dissertation by all PG Masters degree students. Apart from these, paper presentations are done at the state and national conferences.
  

• Faculty members and students routinely participate in workshops, conferences and seminars at the state and national level.
  

• The senior faculty members are regularly invited as examiners to various universities of India for M.B.B.S. as well as M.S. exams.
  

• Clinical trials of various drugs are carried out in Department sponsored by pharmaceutical companies.
  

• More than 25 publications have been published in national and international journals .

• Our department was one of the two centres in india selected for Diplomate of National Board (DNB) Examination in the year 2008.

List Of Publications of Otorhinolaryngology

CME/Conferences Conducted By department:

1) Obstructive sleep apnea symposium, 03 & 04 April 2023.
2) Thyroid Cancer Update 2023,05 February 2023.
3) VAD-OTO-CON Surgical Workshop 21 & 22 January 2023.
4) TMJ Arthroscopy Surgical Workshop and CME, 16th October 2021.
5) Obstructive sleep apnea symposium, 21 Dec 2019.
6) Cochlear implant training, 7 & 8 DEC 2019, Dept. Of E.N.T. and Head-Neck Surgery.
7) Masters of head and neck surgery, Live Head –Neck Oncosurgical workshop,3rd-4th January 2019.
8) Organized by, International federation of head and neck oncologic societies (IFHNOS) , Dept. Of E.N.T. and Head-Neck Surgery.
9) Annual Conference of All india Rhinology Society of India in 2013.
10) Annual State Conference of AOI-GSB (Association of Otolaryngologists of India- Gujarat State Branch) in 2012.

Unitwise Beds:
No. of Units- 2
No. of Total Beds: 60
 

Staff

Residents

NON-TEACHING TECHNICAL STAFF

UNITWISE STAFF COMPOSITION (E.N.T. Dept.)
No. Of Units: 2

E.N.T. B

E.N.T. A

Awards and Achievements

PG Students

Awards / recognitions received at the national and international level by Faculty

Average OPD, IPD & SURGERIES

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