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.
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Salivary duct clipping for drooling
Drooling can be a challenging problem to manage in paediatric ENT. The variety of medical and surgical treatments suggests that there is no gold standard treatment. Nicola Stobbs and Ravi Thevasagayam describe an approach to ligating the salivary ducts. Drooling...
To monitor the nerves or not?
Whilst intraoperative nerve monitoring has become the standard of care for mastoid and parotid surgery, its benefit in thyroid surgery remains unclear. In the UK NICE was agnostic on the subject in 2008, stating that it was potentially helpful and...
Power tools dance off
The use of the harmonic scalpel is popular with some head and neck surgeons. This study looked at selective neck dissections for 40 patients with oral cavity carcinoma. They were randomised into harmonic scalpel (HS) use and monopolar electrocautery. The...
