Ravi Thevasagayam

Consultant ENT Surgeon

Clinical Lead, Department of ENT, Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Sheffield, S10 2TH, UK.

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

A new septoplasty technique

1 November 2014 | | ENTA-Skull Base Surgery, ENTA-Head & Neck | Deviation, High dorsal deviation, Nasal septum, Septoplasty, Wedge

This article describes a novel septoplasty technique to correct a cartilaginous deflection. Although it took a while to understand it as the operative photographs were not very helpful it is an interesting concept. The author excises an inferior strip and...

Risk factors for post tonsillectomy bleeds

1 November 2014 | | ENTA-Skull Base Surgery, ENTA-Head & Neck | Bleeding, Postoperative hemorrhage, Reoperation, Tonsillectomy

This paper reviews post-tonsillectomy bleeding in 692 patients and attempts to tease out risk factors. The overall bleed rate of 11.6% seems very high. The return to theatre rate was 2.6%. The paper identifies male patients and adult patients as...