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Complicated neuro surgery performed on child

Neurosurgeons at KIMSHEALTH performed a transnasal endoscopic surgery on a one-and-a-half year-old girl who had been brought to the hospital in a comatose state and was diagnosed with life-threatening brainstem cavernoma, a rare congenital defect where a cluster of blood vessels in the brain becomes inactive, leading to haemorrhage. A statement issued by the hospital said that transnasal endoscopic brainstem …

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The group photo of the presenters in the Sino-Morocco temporal bone microsurgery course. Moroccan participants carefully selected ENT surgeons from across the country, including heads of hospitals and universities, who aim to integrate advanced surgical techniques into their practices while fostering bilateral learning with their Chinese counterparts. The course centered on the Fisch Technique, a comprehensive system meticulously covering aspects …

Skull Base Surgery

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Young children are notorious for the things they stick up their noses that often end up in a trip to a doctor's surgery or hospital emergency department. "That child was really starting to complain of headaches, that they couldn't smell, and they were starting to get some very bloodstained snot coming out of the right side of their nose," said …

India was honoured as a featured country at the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery 2023 Annual Meeting and OTO Experience in Nashville, Tennessee. The role of Indian Academy of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery whose founding president is Mohan Kameswaran was lauded at the event. According to a bulletin of AAO-HNSF, four countries or territories were selected and …

A 49-year-old woman recently underwent a surgery to remove a benign tumour on her salivary gland. The tumour was on the submandibular gland and conventional methods could leave a scar on her neck. She was then referred to Venkata Karthikeyan C., clinical lead Robotic ENT – Head and Neck Oncology at Apollo Main Hospital. “This approach facilitates endoscopic neck surgeries …

Sinus Surgery

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The Hindu Explains | Is allowing Ayurvedic doctors to perform surgery legally and medically tenable?

The story so far: On November 20, the Central Council of Indian Medicine, a statutory body set up under the AYUSH Ministry to regulate Indian systems of medicine, issued a gazette notification allowing postgraduate Ayurvedic practitioners to receive formal training for a variety of general surgery, ENT, ophthalmology and dental procedures. The decision follows the amendment to the Indian Medicine …

IMA condemns surgery sanction for Ayurveda

The Indian Medical Association has condemned the Central Council of Indian Medicine’s notification giving legal authorisation to post-graduate doctors of Ayurveda in two specific disciplines to perform dental procedures and surgeries in general surgery, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, and ENT, after formal training. It said that ‘corrupting modern medicine by mixing with other systems and poaching the disciplines of modern medicine through …

Ayurvedic doctors can now practice general surgery alongside ortho, ENT and dentistry

Ayurvedic doctors can now perform surgeries with the central government allowing post graduate students to practise general surgery alongside orthopaedic, ophthalmology, ENT and dental. The Centre amended the Indian Medicine Central Council Regulations, 2016, to introduce formal training in the above-mentioned procedures as part of the curriculum for postgraduate students of shalya and shalakya specialisations. IMA President Dr Rajan Sharma …

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There are 155 teaching posts vacant in departments like Biochemistry, Burns and Plastic Surgery, ENT and General Medicine while there are 10 posts for assistant professors in the Department of Trauma and Emergency The All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal has announced several vacancies for teaching posts in its departments. Eligible candidates can apply online at https://aiims-edu.com/home or visit …