Geriatric ENT: ENT Care for the Elderly

The patient population of people more than 65 years old in the population are an integral part of ENT Outpatients.
Like pediatric,Geriatric patients also need a targeted approach to their diseases because they have special issues unique to their population.

The commonest problems I get refereed in the elderly is dizziness and hearing loss. I must mention here that chronic ear infections commonly called as CSOM is the third common diagnosis.
When I used to work in a tertiary care cardiac center, the common presentation was nose bleed due to blood thinners.
Apart from above common presentations,we are very careful in the elderly who present with any swellings or change invoice or breathing and swallowing problems to rule out Head and Neck masses.If the symptoms are of more than 4-6 weeks or any suspicion, a transnasal flexible laryngoscopy is immediately performed in outpatients.

I love interacting with the senior citizens.Its not all about me advicing them, I also get to learn lessons from their wisdom. 

Team for Early Intervention of 0-6 years children with communication disorders

This is not really a blog post with medical information but its a platform I am using to request readers to connect me with like minded professionals.

I am Dr Sheelu Srinivas with following qualifications 

and practising in Bangalore for a decade now.

M.S. ENT (G.S.M.C.and K.E.M.Hospital, Mumbai),MBBS (T.N.M.C.& BYL Nair Hospital, Mumbai)

Specialist Registrar and Associate Specialist U.K. 2001-2006 May

Consultant ENT Surgeon and Department Coordinator Fortis B.G.Rd June 2006-Mar 2015

Honorary Consultant  at Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health and Spastics Society of Karnataka

•Specialised Training in Pediatric ENT including airway reconstruction and Cochlear implants at CHUV Lausanne, Switzerland (Prof Monnier) and Hacettappe University Ankara Turkey (Prof Seneroglu: Pioneer in operating Anomalous Cochlea)

•Pediatric Disability Training: Deafness and communication disorders including Autism

Balavidyalaya Chennai ,DHVANI Methodolody for Deaf children ,Training the trainer course

Com DEALL, Bangalore: Certificate course in communication disorders in children with disabilities

AVT Courses by Advanced Bionics, Medel and Cochlear Companies

I want to start an Early intervention Center for children with Speech and communication delays.This includes kids from birth to 6 years who may have various childhood concerns like hearing loss,Autism spectrum disorder and so on.

I am looking for investors and also building a team.This team needs passionate psychologists,special educators,occupations therapists and audiologists and speech language therapist.

Iam sure there are many dedicated individuals doing this kind of work and would like to connect with them.Kindly message us on sheelusent@gmail.com