Ravi Thevasagayam is a consultant surgeon and clinical lead for ENT at the Sheffield Children’s Hospital. He is ENT lead for undergraduate medical student teaching at the University of Sheffield Medical School. He is also the Associate Secretary to the British Association of Paediatric Otolaryngology (BAPO). He has an interest in airway surgery, drooling, sleep disordered breathing and inducible laryngeal obstruction/vocal cord dysfunction as well as general paediatric ENT.
Latest Contribution
Review of surgical treatments of intractable Meniere’s disease
This is a nice summary of the evidence available for the surgical treatments for intractable Meniere’s disease. To summarise, in five-10 years, over 90% of vestibular neurectomy cases, more than 80% of intratympanic gentamycin treatment, and 70-80% of endolymphatic sac...
Laryngeal cleft in a 66-year-old man!
This is a fascinating case report of a 66-year-old man who presented with a carcinoma of the piriform sinus. During chemoradiotherapy, he developed dyspnoea, dysphagia and aspiration pneumonia. His chemoradiotherapy was stopped and he underwent a pharygnolaryngectomy. When the surgical...
Tinnitus in children
This is a review article about the management of tinnitus in children. In the end the authors came up with just three papers that made the grade. Maybe the most interesting finding was from Vianni in the JLO in 1989....
