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ACEP15 Session: Tips for Safer, More Efficient Ear Nose Throat Procedures

By Vanessa Caceres | on October 24, 2015 | 0 Comment
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If you come to Wednesday’s session “Quick Tips: Rapid-Fire ENT Procedures in the ED,” you’ll get tips and tricks you can use during your next shift in the emergency department, said Gene Hern, MD, emergency medicine residency director at Alameda Health System–Highland Hospital in Oakland, California.

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Although emergency physicians are usually comfortable with basic ear, nose, and throat (ENT) procedures, such as removing foreign bodies or attending to bleeding, there are other procedures that are less common. Dr. Hern’s session will provide both tried-and-true techniques and newer tips to better treat ENT cases.

The cases he will focus on in his talk include draining abscesses, managing bleeding, removing foreign bodies, treating dislocated jaws, and viewing the epiglottis.

Although emergency physicians are usually comfortable with basic ear, nose, and throat (ENT) procedures, such as removing foreign bodies or attending to bleeding, there are other procedures that are less common.

Some ENT cases, such as foreign-body removal from children, require a special touch to avoid traumatizing the child or parent, Dr. Hern said, noting that kids may get a bead or toy lodged in their nose or ear.

“It should be a fun session,” he said. “We’ll have great pictures where I’m demonstrating procedures on colleagues or myself.”

Dr. Hern’s interest in ENT sparked from working at a county hospital that does not have a lot of ENT coverage, so he’s been more hands-on in performing ENT procedures.


Vanessa Caceres is a freelance medical writer based in Florida.

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Quick Tips: Rapid-Fire ENT Procedures in the ED

Wednesday, Oct. 28
10:30–10:55 a.m.
Room 160 ABC

Topics: ACEPACEP15American College of Emergency PhysiciansAnnual Scientific AssemblyConference SessionsCritical CareEducationEmergency MedicineENTProcedures and SkillsQuality

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