Outpatient department
- Filter Clinic for initial assessment
- Consultant Clinic for specialist opinion
- Audiology room for hearing assessment
ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT
Overview
The practice of ENT-HNS (Otorhinolaryngology) involves diagnosis, medical treatment and surgical intervention for a variety of problems, conditions or diseases affecting the ear, nose and throat as well as related areas of head and neck region.
The department of ENT Head & Neck Surgery PIMS, is an internationally recognized center of excellence for the treatment of Head & Neck Cancers apart from its work in ENT related diseases. The department is a 26 bedded facility with fully functional Adult and Pediatric OPDs and also provides surgical facility to both adult and pediatric population.
SERVICES
Clinical services
The department provides ENT and head-and-neck surgery, including laryngeal reconstructive procedures and voice rehabilitation following laryngeal surgery. Cryosurgery is available in the ENT OPD.
- Daily outpatient services
- 24-hour emergency services
- Ward admission for elective and emergency patients
- Basic ENT and head-and-neck surgical procedures
- Endoscopic sinus surgery
- Advanced otological surgery
- Laser surgery
- Audiology
- Speech and language therapy
- Oesophageal voice therapy for patients following laryngectomy
CLINICAL ENVIRONMENT
Facilities
Wards & inpatient care
- 26 beds in Surgical Ward 4
- Two beds in the Children’s Hospital
- Resident doctors and specialist nursing care
- Senior consultant rounds in the morning and evening
- Computerized patient records and real-time access to laboratory reports
Operation theatre facilities
- Purpose-built operating suite with preoperative and recovery rooms
- Sterilization unit and controlled ventilation
- Electrocautery equipment
- Hydraulic operating tables with adjustable LED lighting and central supplies
- Equipment for anesthesia induction, maintenance and perioperative monitoring
- General surgical instrumentation and specialist ENT / head-and-neck instruments
ACADEMIC CONTRIBUTIONS
Research & training
Prof. Anjum Khawar has contributed more than 20 original research papers in national and international journals and presented research at national and international conferences.
The department pioneered a handbook for postgraduate trainees at PIMS, an initiative credited to Prof. Anjum Khawar. Its training record includes 35 doctors who obtained fellowship from the College of Physicians and Surgeons and three who obtained MS ENT degrees from QPGMC.
PROPOSED DEVELOPMENTS
Future plans
- Procurement of equipment for cochlear implantation and auditory brainstem response assessment
- Funding support for prostheses following maxillectomy and mandibulectomy
- Voice rehabilitation prostheses, including Blom-Singer devices, for patients following laryngectomy
- Head-and-neck surgery workshops and temporal bone dissection workshops
- Overseas training opportunities for postgraduate trainees
- Links with ENT departments of international hospitals