Best HVAC Filters for Patients with Bad Allergies

For patients with bad allergies, management of symptoms include not just medications and allergy shots , but also avoidance. Avoidance entails not just physically avoiding allergy particulates, but also removing them from the air you breath as much as you can. Outside of a school or work environment, the home is where a patient may spend a great deal of time. The home is where one can easily take steps to improve the air quality and therefore reduce allergy symptoms and need for (more) all…

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Video on How the Dix-Hallpike Maneuver Diagnoses BPPV Dizziness

This is the second in a series of videos our practice is producing on inner ear dizziness.  This video  demonstrates how the  Dix-Hallpike maneuver  is performed to diagnose  BPPV . Also demonstrated are the different types of eye-twitching (nystagmus) that suggests what type of BPPV a patient may have. The first video was on  how the inner ear balance system works  which can be watched  here . Soon to come are videos specifically regarding treatment of  BPPV . Watch this  video !���������…

9/21/2014 1

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Video on How the Inner Ear Balance System Works

This is the first in a series of videos our practice is producing on how the inner ear balance system works (and when it doesn't) geared towards the lay public and general patient education. Soon to come are videos specifically regarding treatment of BPPV . Watch this video on YouTube .

9/14/2014 0

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Surgeon's Point-of-View (POV) Video Recording

Learning how to video record vivid, stable, high-def, and focussed shots from my (surgeon's) point-of-view has not been an easy endeavor due to technology limitations, though things do appear to be slowly improving. There have been pros and cons with most video-recording systems to date which I have summarized below. The "perfect" video-recording system has yet to be developed which must include all these elements: • Wearable on headlight or glasses • Camera located between t…

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Nice ICD10 Booklet for ENTs

The American Academy of Otolaryngology (AAO-HNS) has put out a sample ICD10 booklet of sorts which may come very handy once ICD10 usage becomes mandatory in 2014. ICD stands for "International Classification of Diseases" and is the way physicians code for a given medical problem. It also is one way health insurance determines what tests or surgeries will be approved or not. The current ICD system being used is called ICD9. Within ICD9, an acute ear infection (whether right or…

5/09/2013 0

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Compact EMG System for Targeted Muscle Injections

An EMG system ( E lectro M yo G raphy) is a critical piece of equipment when it comes to targeted muscle injections in and around the neck, especially when you cannot see or feel the muscle. This scenario is especially true when dealing with spasmodic dysphonia for which targeted botox injections are quite helpful. Given the muscles that need to be injected are contained inside the voicebox and not able to be seen and felt from outside the neck, accurate injection is quite difficult withou…

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