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
Vocal cord dysfunction and dysfunctional breathing: an evolving clinical paradigm
Patients frequently present to the ENT department with breathing difficulties. The entity of ‘vocal cord dysfunction’ (also known as paradoxical vocal cord movement, inducible laryngeal obstruction, and many other names) is increasingly well recognised. Ravi Thevasagayam gives us an overview....
What are the non-inflammatory causes of a conductive loss?
This retrospective study looked at patients with an intact tympanic membrane with non-inflammatory causes – i.e. otitis media and cholesteotoma. They document their findings based on exploratory tympanotomy. They operated depending on the findings with either a stapedectomy or a...
Robot controlled mastoid surgery!
This is a fascinating piece of work by a Korean team developing a human-robot collaborative control. Their model uses image guidance surgery to locate the drill tip’s position. Important structures can be highlighted – in this case the facial nerve....
