Otology

Tinnitus may not be harmful itself, but it can severely impact your daily quality of life. Beltone Hearing Aid Center in Honolulu, HI, can help you deal with this irritating issue, which is characterized by the perception of noise or ringing in the ears. These hearing care professionals offer a range of services in the field of hearing loss, including hearing tests, hearing aid fittings and repair, and more. Tinnitus itself isn’t a condition but a symptom of an underlying issue. In some cases,…

What are the Benefits of Cochlear Implants? For people with implants: • Hearing ranges from near normal ability to understand speech to no hearing benefit at all. • Adults often benefit immediately and continue to improve for about 3 months after the initial tuning sessions. Then, although performance continues to improve, improvements are slower. Cochlear implant users' performances may continue to improve for several years. • Children may improve at a slower pace. A lot of training is needed…

Stereotactic Neurosurgery The stereotactic neurosurgery process uses a 3-dimensional imaging system to enhance the diagnosis and surgical capabilities of the surgeon to make ablations, lesions, biopsy, injection, implantation, simulation and radio-surgery of the affected part. This is a minimally invasive surgical procedure also known as stereotaxy. Orthopedic Surgery Orthopedic surgery involves the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and disorders related to the musculoskeletal structure of…

Critical Thinking Assignment 1 Caryn Bartholomew Topic: Effectiveness of Laryngeal Microsurgery and Voice Therapy to Treat Vocal Nodules in Singers Counterargument: Burns, J. A., Hillman, R. E., Stadelman-Cohen, T., & Zeitels, S. M. (2009). Phonomicrosurgical treatment of intracordal vocal fold cysts in singers. Laryngoscope, 119(2), 419-422. doi: 10.1002/lary.20001 Burns and colleagues (2009) studied the use of phonomicrosurgery in ten singers who presented with intercordal vocal fold cysts.…

Complications of open surgical tracheostomy and their management-our experience Introduction Tracheostomy is the surgical procedure to create an artificial opening in the trachea to bypass the obstructed airway above it. History reveals that it is an oldest surgical procedure dating back 3600 B.C.E. in Egypt(1). It has under gone numerous modifications during the past millennia. The first elective tracheostomy was done in AD 100 by Asclepiad’s of Bithynia and the described by Galen in AD131(2)…