Live Surgery Workshop
The 10th edition of Ensicon, the annual ENT (ear, nose and throat) live surgery workshop will be conducted at Pollachi on July 19 and 20 by the M.C. Veluswamy Memorial ENT Trust. The workshop serves as a course to learn skills in advanced ENT surgeries. About 250 delegates would attend the workshop. Experts from India and the U.S. would constitute the faculty, course director and ENT surgeon of the trust V. Anand told presspersons on Thursday.
Baloon sinoplasty, a method introduced in the U.S. a year ago, was being done now at the trust’s hospital. It would be demonstrated during the workshop, Dr. Anand said. The procedure was similar to cardiac angioplasty. High-pressure balloon catheters would be used to open blocked sinuses. This method was a boon to those who suffered from frontal sinusitis (above the eyes). Done for long under x-ray guidance, the latest catheters used light as the guide to avoid radiation.
S.H. Dailey from the University of Wisconcin, an expert in treating problems in the voice box, would demonstrate surgeries to the vocal cords. BAHA, a method to enable hearing in children born with a defective outer ear, would also be demonstrated by Seth Schwartz, a surgeon from Seattle in the U.S.
In such cases, the inner ear worked. The surgeon would use a titanium bone screw to anchor an electronic instrument behind the ear. It would be invisible under the patients’ hair. This sent sound directly to the cochlea, enabling the children to hear. A person with leaking cerebral spinal fluid after an industrial accident and another with a voice box problem were cases that would be taken up for advanced procedures.
