A whooshing, pulsating, or swooshing sound in the ear is called pulsatile tinnitus and usually just affects one side. Often this may sound like a heartbeat in your ear – and often you are in fact hearing your heartbeat or turbulent blood flow through the vessels that passed through your skull near your ear. These […]
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Aug
Aug
COVID and Hearing Health Most otolaryngologists will agree that hearing complaints are on the rise this past year – whether it’s sudden hearing loss, new onset sensory hearing loss, and new or worsening tinnitus (ringing in the ears). We have seen these complaints during and following a confirmed COVID-19 infection, as well as seemingly on […]
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Jul
We worked on a piece with Fox 5’s Health Team to discuss the new Propel sinus implant that we use to help sinus surgery patients with healing and recovery. This originally aired July 18 2012 ! We have been using the Propel stents in selected cases since first introduced into practice, and the past couple […]
Summer ’24 has seen a very strong and prevalent wave of COVID-19 in the Southeast US. This variant is the FLiRT-wave of infections hitting vaccinated and unvaccinated alike, it is clear in our practice we are seeing a lot of exacerbations of sinus infections. COVID-19 often causes sinus and upper respiratory symptoms such as loss […]
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Jun
Jun
June 14th 2021 Philips Respironics announced a recall of ALL of their CPAP, BIPAP and APAP respiratory devices manufactured in the past several years. The problem had to do with microscopic breakdown of certain components within the air circuit apparatus and respiratory problems that some patients have developed. Fortunately our practice has always used ResMed […]
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May
May
#hipaa Today I am reminded of a significant medical information privacy risk. Nearly all of my ENT colleagues occasionally perform image guided sinus surgery. This requires transferring patient CT scan images over to a hospital computer for use during surgery. The typical way these images are transferred as with an unencrypted CD or DVD drive. […]
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May
May
A certain kind of vertigo, or a “spinning dizziness”, could be triggered by certain yoga positions. Benign paroxysmal position vertigo (“BPPV“) is a condition of the inner ear where tiny crystals become dislodged and incorrectly stimulate the wrong balance nerves in one ear. This classically causes spells of dizziness lasting 30 seconds or so when […]
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Apr
Apr
Came across this today –> Recently I was reading a CT scan of the temporal bone (ear and skull) on a a nice older man with pain and pressure in the ears when flying. He has not been diagnosed with an ear infection as an adult, but gets excessive pain and pressure that seems to […]
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Mar
Mar
This is just a quick video post of eustachian tube anatomy that we are able to capture this week. There is a little bit of blood in the patient’s nasopharynx here from procedure we did at the same setting just before we made the video. This is the patient’s right eustachian tube, we are passing […]
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Jan
Jan
Wild enough, now “PCR test” or “rtPCR” is almost a household name thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. PCR testing is a highly specific and sensitive way to test for genetic material from all sorts of living things. It is used in forensics, microbiology research and most importantly in healthcare. Not only are we testing nasal […]