Some patients who undergo aggressive nasal surgery have the persisting complaint of nasal blockage. I see these people in consultation every week. It will feel like they are still stuffy or blocked up. However when the sniffing in, there is actually a hollow sound heard, and is quite clear that the patient is actually moving […]
Category Archives: Dr. Aaron Rogers
Now amidst the Omicron-wave of infections hitting vaccinated and unvaccinated alike, it is clear in our practice we are seeing a lot of exacerbations of sinus infections. COVID-19 often causes sinus and upper respiratory symptoms such as loss of smell, congestion, and a severe headache. However this leaves the susceptible person open to sinus infections […]
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May
May
The numbers may be a little bit dated now, certainly higher in today’s terms. A good article from 2012 broke down some of the occupational expenses of untreated hearing loss. Most notably, the average employee with any degree of untreated hearing loss earned about $11,000 less than their peers. For severe untreated hearing loss this […]
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May
May
#hipaa Today I am reminded of a significant medical information privacy risk. Nearly all of my ENT colleagues occasionally perform image guided sinus surgery. This requires transferring patient CT scan images over to a hospital computer for use during surgery. The typical way these images are transferred as with an unencrypted CD or DVD drive. […]
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May
May
A certain kind of vertigo, or a “spinning dizziness”, could be triggered by certain yoga positions. Benign paroxysmal position vertigo (“BPPV“) is a condition of the inner ear where tiny crystals become dislodged and incorrectly stimulate the wrong balance nerves in one ear. This classically causes spells of dizziness lasting 30 seconds or so when […]
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Apr
Apr
Came across this today –> Recently I was reading a CT scan of the temporal bone (ear and skull) on a a nice older man with pain and pressure in the ears when flying. He has not been diagnosed with an ear infection as an adult, but gets excessive pain and pressure that seems to […]
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Mar
Mar
This is just a quick video post of eustachian tube anatomy that we are able to capture this week. There is a little bit of blood in the patient’s nasopharynx here from procedure we did at the same setting just before we made the video. This is the patient’s right eustachian tube, we are passing […]
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Jan
Jan
Wild enough, now “PCR test” or “rtPCR” is almost a household name thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. PCR testing is a highly specific and sensitive way to test for genetic material from all sorts of living things. It is used in forensics, microbiology research and most importantly in healthcare. Not only are we testing nasal […]
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Dec
Dec
With serious illness related to Coronavirus running rampant in the country right now, also running rampant are people with mild symptoms or even no symptoms. Many people are screening positive – maybe testing purely as a result of an exposure or as part of a screening program. What do you do if you screen positive? […]
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Dec
Dec
Every week I see allergic patients who are avoiding antihistamine medications because of a concern about their heart or blood pressure. But Most of this worry is outdated and unneeded. Firstly, let’s discuss the antihistamines themselves: (a) older generation antihistamines like diphenhydramine (Benadryl), hydroxyzine (Ararat, Vistaril) or chlorpheneramine (Chlor-Trimeton) are messier chemicals with more side […]