Category: Treatment
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Adenoid and Snoring: Treatment in Trivandrum India
Dr.K.O.Paulose FRCS DLO, Consultant ENT surgeon. Adenoidal hypertrophy is a common condition in children and can cause symptoms such as mouth breathing, nasal discharge, snoring, sleep apnea, and hypo nasal speech .It can lead to sinusitis, recurrent otitis media, and otitis media with effusion with deafness. In adults, both tonsils and adenoids shrink. However, they…
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Sleep well and drive safely: Snoring and traffic accidents
People who suffer from the common sleep disorder, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, of which the most significant sign is loud and heavy, snoring, are seven times more likely to have a road accident than other drivers.Some research shows that more than 10% of drivers admit to having fallen asleep at the wheel. Patients with snoring and…
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Dynamic Endoscopy: Snoring and Sleep Apnea Surgery
Dr.K.O.Paulose FRCS, DLO.Consultant ENT Surgeon. Jubilee Hospital, Trivandrum, Kerala, South India A patient with severe obstructive sleep apnea with loud snoring is about to undergo Coblator Surgery in the upper airway. A Flexible fibre optic endoscopy of the upper airway is done after giving Midazolam and fentanyl by the anesthetist. The exact location of the…