See also:
- Iowa Otolaryngology Resident Handbook
- R3-5 Otolaryngology Resident Preparation VA Rotation with Dean Lyons
Goals
General Considerations | Laryngology | Salivary Disorders |
| Become proficient in taking a history | Become proficient in exam | Become proficient in exam |
First establish rapport! Confirm the patient name, age, occupation, and home situation and identify his/her reason for visit (it helps to assert -when true: 'I studied your chart yesterday in preparation for your visit today and identified you are listed as seeing us today for ..." 1. The ABC's of rapport building: Active listening, Body language, Candor (Kern 2017) 2. Renee Bacher "Boost Your Emotional Intelligence" in ENTtoday (enttoday.org) November 11 2010 https://www.enttoday.org/article/the-important-role-emotional-intelligence-plays-in-patient-care/ reporting on lecture by Ellen Friedman MD "IQ Got You Here. EQ Can Get You There" presented at the Women in otolaryngology luncheon as part of hte AAO-HNS 2019 meeting Sept 15-18 in New Orleans. | Full head and neck exam include cranial nerves Indirect mirror exam of the larynx | Oral exam (bimanual palpation/assess salivary flow) |
| Example: Mrs. X is an 84 year old retired former secretary living in Sioux City, IA (4 1/2 hour trip to Iowa City) accompanied by her supportive husband of 50 years here for evaluation of hoarseness beginning after thyroid surgery two months ago. | Trans-nasal flexible laryngoscopy | Diagnostic ultrasound see: descriptive images |
| History of present illness | Office procedures including | Salivary gland interventions |
Characterize concern in detail: (PPQRSTA = Provoking, Palliative, Quality, Radiation, Severity, Timing, Associated factors) When there are multiple confusing possibly interacting complaints, it is often useful to list them numerically by writing them on dry erase board in a hierarchy of most important to the patient to least important | 1. Voice Clinic A. Interpretation of voice analysis B. Performance of rigid transoral video laryngoscopy in Voice Clinic 2. Botox injection to head and neck | 1. Duct canulation and dilation |
| Physical exam - always employ concept of "fulcrum"(word for the day=fulcrum) | 3. Anesthesia for laryngeal procedures (topical, SLN, glossopharyngeal blocks) | 2. Ultrasound guided botox injection/needle biopsy |
| Otoscopy: nasal exam (anterior rhinoscopy): oral cavity exam (bimanual palpation, massage of salivary glands): indirect mirror exam of oropharynx and larynx: palpation of neck (levels I-VI) ; consider ultrasound an extension of physical exam | 4. Assist with laryngeal injections/biopsies/laser | 3. Sialography |
Organization
In many cases it is useful for the resident to write out the primary concerns of the patient in front of the patient to include the patient in organizing the history as in the photos below (as initiated by Z Robinett)
Reading to Prepare for Rotation
A. Laryngology - clinical exam
- Examination of the subglottis with transnasal laryngoscopy
- Narrow band imaging of vocal cord leukoplakia flexible transnasal videolaryngoscopy
B. Laryngology - disease processes
- Unilateral Laryngeal Paralysis or Vocal Cord Paralysis
- Laryngeal Movement Disorders Clinic (Neurolaryngology)
C. Salivary disorders - clinical exam
- Salivary Ultrasound
- Sialograms and Sialography
- Hoffman HT, Pagedar NA.Ultrasound-Guided Salivary Gland Techniques and Interpretations.Atlas Oral Maxillofac Surg Clin North Am. 2018 Sep;26(2):119-132. doi: 10.1016/j.cxom.2018.04.001. Review. .
D. Salivary Disorders - disease processes
References
Kern, Eugene B: The Birkett lecture: Avoiding the Unhappy Patient: The ABC's of Rapport Building Laryngoscope 127:2517-2521 November 2017
Renee Bacher "Boost Your Emotional Intelligence" in ENTtoday (enttoday.org) November 11 2010 https://www.enttoday.org/article/the-important-role-emotional-intelligence-plays-in-patient-care/
reporting on lecture by Ellen Friedman MD "IQ Got You Here. EQ Can Get You There" presented at the Women in otolaryngology luncheon as part of hte AAO-HNS 2019 meeting Sept 15-18 in New Orleans.
Hoffman HT, Pagedar NA.Ultrasound-Guided Salivary Gland Techniques and Interpretations.Atlas Oral Maxillofac Surg Clin North Am. 2018 Sep;26(2):119-132. doi: 10.1016/j.cxom.2018.04.001. Review. .
