Dr. Ramachandran Vedachalam

Ear, Nose & Throat Department

ENT Specialist

Academic Certificates, Trainings & Fellowships:

• Master of Surgery ( ENT)
• Diplomate of National Board( ENT)
• Fellow of European Board of Otorhinolaryngology
• Fellow of Royal college of Surgeons Otorhinolaryngology ( England)
• Master of Chirurgiae ( MCH) in Otorhinolaryngology
• Cochlear Implantation and Implantation Otology Fellowship (Nottingham, UK)
  

Scope of Clinical Practice:

• Ear:
  - Myringotomy and Grommet insertion
  - Intratympanic injection
  - Tympanoplasty including endoscopic ear surgery
  - Ossiculoplasty including PORP/ TORP
  - Canal wall up and Canal wall down mastoid surgeries for cholesteatoma
  - LASER surgery for cholesteatoma
  - LASER stapes surgery
  - Mastoid obliteration
  - Bone Anchored Hearing Aid ( BAHA)
  - Pediatric ear surgery
  - Excision of tumors of external and middle ear
  - Pre auricular sinus excision
  - Meatoplasty
  - Canal plasty
  - Facial nerve decompression
  - Labyrinthectomy
  - CSF leak repair
  - Evaluation of dizzy patients and treatment
• Nose:
  - Turbinoplasty/ Coablation of inferior turbinates
  - Endoscopic Sinus surgery
  - Endoscopic lacrimal sac surgery
  - Septal button insertion / closure of septal perforation
  - Nasal tumor surgery
  - Sphenopalantine artery cauterisation
  - Septoplasty including endoscopic septoplasty
• Throat:
  - Microlaryngocopy and surgery including Coablation/ LASER/ Microdebrider techniques
  - Rigid Pharyngoscopy and esophagoscopy
  - Adenoidectomy including endoscopic Microdebrider/ Coablation techniques
  - Tracheostomy - emergency and elective
  - Pediatric airway assessment
  - Tonsillectomy including intracapsular Coablation techniques
  - Supraglottoplasty
  - Vocal cord injections
  - Removal of foreign bodies in ear nose and throat
  - Drainage of neck abscess
  - Neck lump surgery/ biopsy