Dr. Reena Varghese
HOD & Senior Consultant- Otorhinolaryngology & Head & Neck
Otorhinolaryngology & Head & Neck
Overview & Features
The department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at Lisie Hospital, Ernakulam is comparable with the best in the world. The Out-Patient department functions on all working days and has an adjoining full-fledged procedure room equipped with otologic microscope, nasal endoscopes and a video-laryngoscope to aid in comprehensive and accurate diagnosis. Minor surgical procedures can also be carried out here with the help of the dedicated staff to give prompt relief to the patient.
The OPD also enjoys the support of auxiliary departments providing speech voice and swallowing therapy in addition to audiological assessment and dispensing of digital programmable hearing aids. Voice, Vertigo, Allergy and Headache clinics also function within the OPD.
Inpatient care is provided in private rooms or in separate male and female wards manned by well trained nurses. Daily dressing and ENT procedures for the inpatients are carried out at the attached procedure room.
Two state of art operating rooms in the impressive Theatre complex are allotted to the department and allows for round the clock major elective and emergency operative procedures of the Ear Nose and Throat including phonosurgery and surgery for snoring and sleep apnoea. The Theatre is also equipped with Xenon and LED light sources, technologically advanced cameras and recording systems in addition to the operating microscope, endoscopes, microdebriders and the Coblator.
Diseases/Conditions Treated
OPD SERVICES
ENT diagnostic and treatment services
Management of Allergy/sinusitis / nasal block
Treatment of deviated septum / nasal bleeding/nasal polyps/ nasal and skull base tumours
Correction of nasal deformities / snoring and sleep apnoea
Wax removal from ear
Ear, Nose and Throat foreign body removal
Diagnostic nasal endoscopy / Bedside nasal endoscopy for lCU patients
Microscopic examination of ear
Flexible endoscopy of larynx (Voice & swallowing clinic)
Audiometry tympanometry and other audiology evaluation
Dispensing Star key digital programmable hearing aids
Speech Therapy
Allergy Lab: planning stages
Headache clinic
EMERGENCY PROCEDURES
Foreign body removal
Tracheostomy
Epistaxis management (Nasal bleed)
Management of Facial injuries including fractures
Treatments
OTOLOGY
- Correction of congenital anomalies of the ear including preauricular sinus
- Myringotomy & Grommet insertion
- Myringoplasty
- Tympanoplasty(including Ossiculoplasty)
- Mastoidectomy (Cortical/ Modified Radical/ Radical)
- Stapedectomy
- Surgery for the tumour of ear
- Facial nerve surgeries (Decompression, Grafting)
- lntra tympanic injection of gentamicin
- Canalplasty
- Excision of Tumors of middle ear and mastoid
RHINOLOGY
- Endoscopic Sinus Surgery
- For acute and chronic sinusitis and its complications
- For nasal polyposis
- For spectrum of fungal sinusitis
- Septoplasty / Endoscopic septoplasty
- Endoscopic turbinoplasty and nasal air flow improvement
- Adenoidectomy / Adenotonsillectomy- Endoscopic /Coblator Assisted Endoscopic D C R ( Dacrocystorhinostomy)
- Endoscopic Repair of CSF Rhinorrhoea
- Surgery for Snoring and sleep apnoea
- Rhinosporidiosis excision
- Epistaxis (Nasal Bleeding)
- Septoplasty
- Young's operation for Atrophic Rhinitis
- Caldwell Luc Operation
- Endoscopic Medial Maxillectomy
- Endoscopic surgery for nasal tumours
- Endoscopic and combined approach surgeries for skull base tumours
- Endoscopic trans Sphenoidal pituitary excision / skull base surgeries
- Endocopic orbital decompression
- Endoscopic frontal sinus surgeries
- Vidian neurectomy
- Rhinoplasty
- Revision sinus surgeries
- Excision of Nasal & Nasopharyngeal Tumours such as Juvenile Angiofibroma by
- Transpalatal approach
- Lateral Rhinotomy/ medial maxillectomy
- Midfacial degloving (Sub Labial)
Larynqoloqv and head and neck surgeries, HEAD AND NECK SURGERIES
- Adenotonsillectomy
- Excision of lesions of Palate and Tongue
- Upperaerodigestive endoscopy for adults and children
- Tracheostomy
- Sialadenectomy
- Thyroglossal cyst fistula Excision (sistrinks)
- Branchial cyst/ fistula Excision
- Oncologic surgeries of head & neck including maxillectomy & Laryngectomy
- Microlaryngeal Surgery
- Phonosurgery (Voice Restoration Surgery) : Thyroplasty
- types I - lV,
Fat injection into vocal cords
24 HOUR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT INCLUDING:
- Foreign body removal- Ear, Nose Throat
- Tracheostomy
- Haematoma Septum
- Facial injuries
- Epistaxis management
- Surgery for bilateral vocal cord palsy (Kashima)
Rooms, Technology, ICUs
- Carl Zeiss Operating Microscope - Movena
- Head Light - Storz KS60 / Lemperts
- Xenon and LED light sources/ cables
- Debriders - SIRYKER & Medtronic
- Micro Drill - SIRYKER &Medtronic -lndigo & Skeetor
- Arthrocare Coblator
- Nasal Endoscopes (Storz and Shileys)
-0 degree
-30 degree
-70 degree
- Storz 3 chipcanrera and hd monitor and Aida video recorder
- Audiology: GSI Audistar pro
GSI Tympstar pro
Star key digital programmable hearing aids
Inpatient Rounds Policy
Daily Rounds in the morning
Meet Our Doctors
Dr. Reena Varghese
HOD & Senior Consultant
Dr. Frankie J Kavalakat
Consultant
Dr. Jareen Ann Ebenezer
Consultant ENT Surgeon & ...
Dr. Divya Mohan Vadakkedathu
Consultant ENT Surgeon
