Fundamental to medical decision making is the challenging task of weighing the benefits against the risks of any given treatment decision. Clinical guidelines and protocols help with this decision making, which is further informed by physician judgment, particularly when the evidence is weak or lacking.
Who should care for otolaryngology patients when they present to the emergency department (ED)? And how should the physicians who care for those patients be compensated? Those two questions are at the heart of a conundrum that has escalated over the past two decades.
Providers must do their own due diligence when introducing a new device to patients. We need to understand the risk–benefit profile compared to our current gold standard.
Combining minimal access endoscopic approaches to the ITF can provide significantly greater exposure than an isolated endoscopic transnasal transpterygoid approach (EETA), thereby providing enhanced access to address lesions with extensive involvement of the ITF.
Awake videolaryngoscopy intubation is an excellent strategy to adopt in patients with laryngeal cancer, particularly when potentially complicated intubation is expected.
The case study underscores the necessity of a thorough clinical and diagnostic evaluation in patients with atypical presentations of GPA to prevent severe complications.
This study describes the successful use of a hybrid resection and laryngotracheoplasty procedure that maximizes airway luminal patency in adults with successful decannulation.
Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) comprises less than 5% of thyroid cancers but is responsible for more than 10% of deaths related to thyroid cancer.
Antithrombotic management is a key component of surgical optimization, as it necessitates balancing the risk of a peri-operative thrombotic event with the risk of bleeding.