Comment of the Day

LEARNING ENT
 "Being an ENT Person we have to see all type and kind of patients,right from intrauterine and newborn To Oldest and even dead patients,simplest to deadliest situations,like itching in the Ear to Ventilated Moribund patients.....now...What an ENT-Person should Know more than the Core ENT?: Like KNOWLEDGE OF ANAESTHESIA ,PEDIATRICS,MEDICINE,NEUROSURGICAL ISSUES,OPHTHALMOLOGY,PLASTICS,and DENTISTRY ISSUES..so that whenever in Dire need of the SAME,when the CONCERNED PERSON is not available or not competent to Handle the situation,We can have an edge over What we are just an ENT person.....Share Please...." Dr Pankaj Aggarwal

 How to Do the New CPR1. Call help or ask someone else to do so. 2. Try to get the person to respond; if he doesn't, roll the person on his or her back. 3. Start chest compressions. Place the heel of your hand on the center of the victim's chest. Put your other hand on top of the first with your fingers interlaced. 4. Press down so you compress the chest at least 2 inches in adults and children and 1.5 inches in infants. ''One hundred times a minute or even a little faster is optimal 5. If you're been trained in CPR, you can now open the airway with a head tilt and chin lift. 6. Pinch closed the nose of the victim. Take a normal breath, cover the victim's mouth with yours to create an airtight seal, and then give two, one-second breaths as you watch for the chest to rise. 7. Continue compressions and breaths -- 30 compressions, two breaths -- until help arrives.

Modified Lothrop Procedure or Draf-lll along with a complete Sphenoethmoidectomy

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Modified Lothrop Procedure or Draf-lll along with a complete Sphenoethmoidectomy is the surgery of choice for recurrent allergic polyps & Fungal sinusitis.Widely opening up all the sinuses, not only enables complete removal of the disease process, but also lets the post operative douching reach all the corners, so that the antigenic stimulation is brought down to the maximum thus drastically reducing the recurrence rate. I present to you my first case done 3 weeks back in this video which is on U Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A039Xc-fL_Y&feature=youtu.be This sure is revolutionising the management of these untackled conditions! Regards,
 Dr George Varghese Kochi,India

Comment of the Day

LEARNING ENT

The best part of being an ENT is that almost every procedure can be learnt by Cadaver Dissection. Cultivate (?bribe) some mortuary fellows, medical officers etc and dissect on fresh cadavers. If possible keep a separate portable suction etc in your vehicle along with the instruments and dissect, dissect, dissect. Then observe as many people as you can (videos, live, mini fellowships, observerships etc.) and again come back and dissect some more (applying what you've seen). And never stop dissecting. Some of the most pioneering approaches in ENT were (and indeed still are) first conceived, honed and practiced on cadavers..... Dr Yogesh Jain

24th National ENT Conference,14th to 16th December 2012,Karachi

Dear Colleagues, It gives me immense pleasure to invite you this winter to the beautiful city of Karachi on the auspicious occasion of the 24th National ENT Conference to be held from 14th to 16th December 2012. This platform provides us an opportunity to share our views regarding the recent advancements, disease pattern, various approaches and of course also provides the budding consultants an opportunity to present their research for discussion and accreditation. We expect maximum attendance from all over the country as Karachi is the trend setter and plays a lead role in the ENT fraternity of our country. We are expecting a good number of international delegates from USA , UK , UAE, Malaysia , India and other countries, who will conduct pre conference workshops, seminars, state of the art and key note lectures. Looking forward to welcome you in Karachi . ---------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Muhammad Saleem Marfani Professor & Chairman Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Dow Medical College Dow University of Health Sciences KARACHI, PAKISTAN Cell: 0301 8215909 Hosp: 009221 99215742 Ext.3019 Dir: 009221 99215717 Clinic: 009221 34533597

Montelukast in the treatment of allergic rhinitis: an evidence-based review.

Abstract Cysteinyl-leukotrienes (CysLTs) are endogenous mediators of inflammation and play an important role in allergic airway disease by stimulating bronchoconstriction, mucus production, mucosal oedema and inflammation, airway infiltration by eosinophils, and dendritic cell maturation that prepares for future allergic response. Montelukast inhibits these actions by blocking type 1 CysLT receptors found on immunocytes, smooth muscle and endothelium in the respiratory mucosa. Initially developed as a treatment for asthma, montelukast has more recently found use in the treatment of allergic rhinitis (AR). We conducted a systematic review of studies that have evaluated montelukast in the treatment of seasonal AR (SAR) and perennial AR (PAR), with and without concomitant asthma. Primary consideration was given to large, randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trials in which AR endpoints were assessed and the use of concurrent treatments for AR was excluded. Eight such studies were found in the literature. The primary endpoint in these was daytime nasal symptom severity represented by a composite score derived from individual self-ratings of nasal congestion, rhinorrhoea, nasal pruritus and sneezing. Secondary endpoints have included these individual nasal symptom scores, additional scores for eye, ear and throat symptoms, the impact of rhinitis on quality of sleep, global evaluations of outcome by patients and physicians, and measures of the severity of concomitant asthma. A general outcome was that patients treated with montelukast had significantly greater improvements in their symptoms of SAR and PAR than did patients who were given a placebo. As monotherapy, montelukast exhibited efficacy similar to that of loratadine, but less than that of the intranasally administered corticosteroid fluticasone propionate. The use of montelukast in combination with antihistamines such as loratadine or cetirizine has generally resulted in greater efficacy than when these agents were used alone, and in some studies has produced results comparable with intranasally applied corticosteroids. In patients with AR comorbid with asthma, montelukast treatment has resulted in significant improvements in both, compared with placebo. Montelukast is well tolerated and has a favourable safety profile; adverse events have occurred at similar frequencies in patients taking either montelukast or placebo. Montelukast provides an effective and well tolerated oral treatment for allergic airway inflammation in patients with SAR or PAR without asthma, and in patients in whom AR is comorbid with asthma.

Julius Lempert ... Father of Modern Otology

The Julius Lempert story occurred in the early part of the 20th century. It would be an impossible accomplishment in the 21st century. The son of Mischa and Anna Lempert, Julius was born in Lublin, Poland, on July 4, 1891. Not much is known about the boy’s early years. Most accounts start at age 13 when Julius joined a student protest march, was arrested by the police, and thrown in prison. READ MORE

Workshop on Head and Neck Oncosurgery and Hands on cadaveric dissection course , June1-3,2012, Kasturba Hospital, Manipal

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Workshop on Head and Neck Oncosurgery and Hands on cadaveric dissection course Venue: Conference Hall, 3rd Floor, Shirdi Sai Baba Cancer Block, Kasturba Hospital, Manipal Dates: June1-3,2012 Organised by: Dept of ENT-Head and Neck surgery and Department of Anatomy, KMC, Manipal Email:baluent@yahoo.com, drnent@rediffmail.com Contact: +919845383714, +919880195957 Fees: Workshop with cadaveric dissection course: Rs 6000/$250 Workshop with cadaveric dissection course observation:Rs1500/$75(Rs1000/ $50 for postgraduates) Last date for registration: May 15th,2012 Spot registration: Rs 2500/$100(No cadaveric dissection)

AOI Delhi state Conference

Revised Programme VISIT http://www.aoidelhi.net/



Dr Ishwar Singh)
Hony Secretary, Delhi AOI


VENUE:
Stein Auditorium
India Habitat Center,
New Delhi


GUEST FACULTY
Dr. Magne Thivrein
Dr. Subramania Iyer
Dr. Jayakumar R. Menon

Details of Cheque/DD in favour of “Delhi AOICON 2012”

REGISTRATION = Rs 1500/-


 PG Residents = Rs 1000/-





Contact

Dr Ishwar Singh
Professor of ENT
Department of ENT, 3rd Floor
MAMC, New Delhi-110002
M=9968604235
E mail= drisingh62@gmail.com

Sleep disordered Breathing ,April 22,Nagpur

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Dr Samit S. Bali 
(MBBS, MS)
Consultant ENT Surgeon
Bali Clinic, Ground floor,Yash Complex ,
Bharat Nagar sq.,Amravati road
Nagpur 440033, India
Clinic No. 0712 2549358

Home Sleep Monitoring Device

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INQUIRY FORM

Home Sleep Monitoring Device

Morpheus ® Ox is WideMed’s cost-effective, portable home sleep diagnostic and monitoring solution. Easy to use, watch-
size device enables anyone to perform a sleep test in the comfort of their own bedroom. The Morpheus Ox measures
photoplethysmography, blood saturation, heart rate, and activity signals.

By utilizing W ideMed’s innovative automatic sleep scoring software, Morpheus Ox delivers an accurate and reliable sleep
study diagnosis, including Apnea Hypopnea Index (AHI), sleep/wake, and Cheyne-Stokes breathing.

Morpheus Ox’s unique algorithm derives a respiratory signal which is comparable to measured respiratory signals.

The Morpheus Ox web-based server software is a comprehensive platform which manages a cost-effective sleep services
operation, including patient electronic medical record, cardiac and sleep diagnostics outcomes and a complete workflow
management.

Morpheus Ox is offered in two configurations, one for a single physician clinic while the other is designed for sleep
diagnostic service centers.

Highlights

• Overnight home/ambulatory monitoring

• Automatic sleep diagnostics scoring

• Easy to use

• Simple data retrieval

• Intuitive patient operation

• Enhanced patient comfort

• Web-based sleep study data management

• Low cost proven hardware

• Up to 3 nights recording capability

• Ambulatory cardio-sleep diagnosis

11th Asia Pacific Congress on Deafness in conjunction with the 6th National University of Singapore – National University Hospital ENT Conference, from 26th to 28th July 2012.

Dear friends and colleagues,

It is a pleasure to inform you that the National University Hospital Singapore will be hosting the 11th Asia Pacific Congress on Deafness in conjunction with the 6th National University of Singapore – National University Hospital ENT Conference, from 26th to 28th July 2012.

This conference will be an unique one as our focus in ENT section will be in Inner Ear Regeneration, Genetic Hearing Loss, Implantable Hearing Devices, Microtia Reconstruction, Tinnitus and Noise-Induced Hearing Loss. 

Among the invited faculty and speakers are:

Prof. Stefan Heller (Stanford University, USA)

A/Prof. John Grienwald (Cincinnati Children's Hospital, USA)

Dr. Ashesh Bhumkar (Ear-Nose-Throat Hospital, India)

Dr. Henning Frenzel (University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)

Dr. Nagata Satoru (Chiba TokushukaiHospital, Chiba, Japan)

Prof. Tianyu Zhang (Fudan University, China)

In addition, pre-congress workshops on Temporal Bone Drilling, Interpreting Radiology of Temporal Bone, etc, are available on 24th and 25th July 2012. 

We are honored to have your presence here, sharing your experience and presenting your research papers. More information is available on the conference website: www.apcd2012.comor email secretariat@apcd2012.com

Yours Sincerely,

Associate Professor Lynne Lim

Congress President, 11^th AsiaPacific Congress on Deafness

Director, Centre for Hearing Intervention & Language Development (CHILD)

Senior Consultant, Otolaryngology - Head Neck Surgery Department

National University Health System

Chin Ee Ling
Congress Secretary, APCD 2012

Audiologist
ENT Clinic, National University Hospital

5, Lower Kent Ridge Road, Kent Ridge Wing 2,  Level 3, Singapore 119074
DID 6772 4487/4480, Fax 6777 7714, http://www.nuh.com.sg/ent A member of NUHS 

Surgical Workshop on Lateral Skull Base Surgery & 32nd Annual Conf. of Neuro-Otological & Equilibriornetrie Society of India,April 19-21,Delhi

Scientific Programme 

3rd Sri Ramachandra Voice Update 2012 – First Announcement

3^rd Sri Ramachandra Voice Update 2012 – First Announcement

The Department of ENT, Head & Neck Surgery and the Department of Speech Language & Hearing Sciences, Sri Ramachandra University announce the 3^rdSri Ramachandra Voice Update to be held at Chennai. The workshop comprises live surgeries, lectures and panel discussions with parallel sessions for Speech Language Pathologists.

Date: 11^th August 2012

Venue: Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute, Porur, Chennai – 600116

Organizing chairman: Prof (Lt Col) A Ravikumar

Registration details:

ENT Consultants	Rs 2500/-
Speech Pathology Consultants	Rs 1500/-
Postgraduates – ENT, Speech Pathology	Rs 1000/-

Last date for registration: 1 Aug 2012

Accommodation available within the hospital campus. Kindly intimate if accommodation is required.

Faculty:

Dr. Jayakumar Menon, Thiruvananthapuram

Ms. Divya Chandrasekhar, Gurgaon

Send in your registrations by DD in favour of ‘VOICE CME’ payable at Chennai to:

Dr. (Maj) John Samuel

Organizing Secretary

Department of ENT, Head & Neck Surgery,

Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute,

Porur,

Chennai – 600116

Mob: 9952982949

Email: johnsam71@gmail.com

12TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF FHNO (Foundation of Head & Neck Oncology) Date:- October 12th – 14th , 2012

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IFHNOS WORLD TOUR 2012 (The International Federation of Head & Neck Oncologic Societies)

&

12^THNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF FHNO (Foundation of Head & Neck Oncology)

Date:- October 12^th– 14^th , 2012

Venue:- Hotel Courtyard Marriott, Ahmedabad, India

SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT:

Dr. Rajendra Toprani, M.S., M.Ch. Organizing Secretary

HCG Cancer Centre, Sola Science City Road, S. G. Highway, Ahmedabad - 380060 Gujarat, India

Tel.: +91 79 30907000 / 33669999 - M: +91 9898213214 - Email: ifhnos2012ahd@gmail.com

 HOSTED BY: GSHNO (Gujarat Society of Head & Neck Oncology)

For Registrations contact :

Event Manager

VAMA EVENTS PVT LTD

Tel.: + 91 22 2438 3498 - Telefax: + 91 22 2438 3499 - Email: vamahospitality@hotmail.com

AOI 8th Southzone and 31 st AOI AP State Conference to be held at “A Convention Centre” Vijayawada from 12 th to 14th October 2012.

Dear Friends,

We have great pleasure in inviting all of you to the mega event of the ENT fraternity of the South India, AOI 8th Southzone and 31 st AOI AP State Conference to be held at “A Convention Centre” Vijayawada from 12 th to 14th October 2012.

When the Southzone was concieved 7 years ago at informal meetings of some of the senior members everyone was wondering whether we can sustain the energy flowing. Successive and Successful Conferences all around the Southern states of Andhra Pradesh,Karnataka,Kerala and Tamil nadu including Pondicherry  proved that  always good Conferences are well attended. The last Southzone Conference at Kozhikode proved this point with 900 delegate registrations. The Governingbody and  the steering Committee headed by Dr.Mohan kameswaran (2006-2009)Dr.Dwarakanatha Reddy(2009 to 2012) had left no stones to streamline the activities of the Southzone ENT fraternity.

 The three day extravaganza includes several events Orations by eminent international and national faculty, Panel discussions,Invited talks and Award and Goldmedal paper presentations by the Postgraduates and Residents and Consultants. We have confirmed acceptance by some of the well known faculty and we were also waiting for the some more acceptances. We are also planning to have cultural activities along with the traditional Andhra hospitality.

Please mark the  dates 12-14th October 2012 for this mega event.  We assure you an academically stimulating and  enjoyable Conference at Vijayawada. The weather at Vijayawada is just pleasnt and beautiful. We request you to attend in larger numbers and make the Conference a memorable one.



Murthy PSN                    Sivaramakrishna K    

Org Chairman                    Org  Secretary              



Professor & HOD/ENT-HNS/Dr.PSIMS&RF/Gannavaram

Senior Consultant/ENT-HNS/Manipal Hospitals/Vijayawada

Member,Academic Senate/Dr.NTR University of Health Sciences/Vijayawada (From 2010 onwards)

Member,World Association of Medical Editors

Chairman/Editorial Board – IJOHNS (2006 to 2012)

Editor/International Journal of Phonosurgery and Laryngology

Past president/AOI – AP & Southzone branches (2007 to 2008)

Past President/All India Rhinology Society (2008 to 2009)

Surgical Workshop on Lateral Skull Base Surgery & 32nd Annual Conf. of Neuro-Otological & Equilibriornetrie Society of India,April 19-21,Delhi

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Surgical Workshop on Larral Skull Base Surgery & 32nd Annual Conf. of Neuro-Otological & Equilibriornetrie Society , AI IMS & India Habitat Centre New Delhi

• Venue : LN auditorium AIIMS and India Habitat Center

• Academic feat to look forward to...by all ENT specialists and audiologists by the faculty best in field!!

  Mail ... kapil_sikka@yahoo.com

Workshop on neurotology,13th 14th and 15th of April,Kolkata

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Dear Doctor,
This is to inform you about my next workshop on neurotology and medical audiology specifically for doctors practising in ENT and neurology which I have been conducting every year for the last 12 years. This is the only workshop of its kind in this part of the world and is designed for clinicians who manage patients suffering from balance disorders and hearing disorders (vertigo, deafness and tinnitus). This year the workshop will be held in Kolkata on the 13th 14th and 15th of April. Prof Harman Kingma from the Netherlands and Prof Gorgio Guedetti from Italy both of whom are international celebrities in the field of neurotology are the invited foreign faculty. In addition we will be having some Indian doctors -neurologists and ENTs who have excelled in diagnostic and therapeutic neurotology and have special interest in vertigo as faculty members for the three-day rendezvous on contemporary neurotology.
The purpose of the workshop is to update clinicians on the diagnosis and management of vertigo and hearing disorders and evolve an ethical and judicious consensus on management. The management of balance disorders has been the most controversial and screwed up subject in contemporary medicine and an ethical consensus needs to be evolved putting all our heads together as many stalwarts in the subject will be present there. This is one of the objectives of the workshop. There will be enough scope of practical demonstrations of the various high-tech investigations for vertigo and the different liberatory manoeuvres and physical therapy for management of balance disorders. All the latest investigative modalities that are now considered essential for diagnosis of neurotological disorders like VNG, ENG, VEMP, ECochG, VHIT, Subjective Visual Vertical, CHIRP BERA, ABRIS, ASSR etc and the ethical and ideal management of balance disorders will be essence of this workshop.
I will be extremely grateful if you join us for this workshop and also circulate the details of this to your friends and colleagues. A brochure for the workshop is attached along with for your esteemed perusal.
You may get back to me for any further details that you require or ring up my secretary:- phone numbers + 91 9831477573 and +91 9836002580.
With regards,
Dr Anirban Biswas 
Ph +919830352580 


You may visit me at www.dranirbanbiswas.com The agenda and program of the workshop is uploaded here in the page on 'Updates of workshops' .