Surgical Services
Surgical Services
Nairobi ENT Clinic conducts numerous major and minor surgeries and draws together faculty and staff from several departments (a multi-disciplinary team), ENT consultants, audiologists, speech and language therapists and ENT nurses to enhance patient care and research.
The out-patient services offered are:
Consultations for ENT diseases
Audiology services- Pure tone audiometry, tympanometry, BERA, newborn hearing screening
Vestibular assessment and rehabilitation.
Speech and language therapy
Foreign body removal in the ear and nose.
Aural toilet and examination under the microscope
Nasal packing, nasal cautery, nasal douching
Punch biopsies for masses in the oral cavity and nose
Drainage of neck abscesses
Video- diagnostic procedures- videolaryngoscopies, rigid nasal endoscopy and video-otoscopies.
Change of tracheostomy tubes
The in-patient surgical services offered are:
Emergency surgeries which include- insertion of tracheostomy tubes, drainage of abscesses, foreign body removal in the nose, ears and throat. Repair of penetrating neck injuries.
Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy
Ear surgeries- tympanoplasty, mastoidectomy, myringotomy and grommet insertion, lateral skull base surgery.
Nasal surgeries- turbinoplasty, endoscopic sinus surgery, endoscopic approach to the skull base, repair of CSF leaks, reduction of nasal fractures, septorhinoplasty
Laryngeal surgeries- direct laryngoscopy+biopsy , microlaryngeal excision of laryngeal nodules, cysts, papillomas and polyps, Laryngotracheal reconstruction
Head and Neck surgeries- parotidectomy, submandibular gland excision, total laryngectomy, neck dissection and reconstruction, hypopharyngectomy and reconstruction, excision of branchial cleft cysts, cystic hygromas and thyroglossal duct cysts, thyroidectomy.