Often helped ENT patients in day care or outpatients

In the last period, Corona postponed surgery for many patients. This also applies to patients at the Jeroen Bosch Hospital (JBZ). This is very annoying for them, especially because it means that they have complaints for a longer period.

That’s why healthcare professionals at JBZ are constantly looking for innovative solutions to help people as quickly as possible in a safe and high-quality manner. One such solution is to perform laryngeal, nose and ear (ENT) operations on an outpatient or outpatient basis.

day treatment
In order to shorten patient waiting times, more and more small ENT procedures are being performed in day care rather than clinical. Patients undergoing day treatment only have to stay in the hospital for a few hours with day care and then are allowed to go home. This is convenient for patients because it takes less time and they do not have to spend the night in the hospital. In this way, JHA can help more people in a short period of time.

clinic
To minimize the impact of the intervention on patients and their relatives, relatively minor ENT procedures such as turbinate cuts, nasal sutures, adenoidectomy, vocal cord surgeries, and ear canal enlargement have recently been performed on an outpatient basis, under local anaesthesia. . Since Tuesday, February 17, the small eardrums for adults are also closed on an outpatient basis. With a hole in the eardrum, water, viruses, and bacteria can easily enter the ear canal. This can cause infection and hearing loss. To fill the hole, a piece of cartilage is removed from the pinna. This piece of cartilage is cut to the diabolo and placed in the defect of the eardrum.

Outpatient procedures have several advantages for the patient. Thus, hospitalization is not required. After registration in the outpatient clinic, the operation is performed in the outpatient room under the influence of local anesthesia. If all goes well, the patient can go home after an hour. Also, no examination or anesthesia is required before the surgery, so the whole process takes less time. Patients do not have to take an entire day off and are helped relatively quickly.

Familiar feeling
Barbara Schwartzman was the first to undergo an outpatient eardrum closure on February 17. In the morning, I headed to the throat, nose, and ear clinic at the main JHAH site. Soon she can go to Dr. Balter for the surgery. I didn’t find it sexy at all. Dr. Balter reassured me beforehand. I had complete confidence in her that everything would be fine. (..) You told me beforehand what you were going to do, so I was very calm’, Ms. Schwartzman says. After the procedure, Dr. Balter and Ms. Schwartzman discussed the procedure and how Ms. Schwartzman went through with it. “I did not feel any pain during the operation and did not feel any pain afterwards.” The preparation, intervention and examinations took one hour. After this hour Mrs. Schwartzman was able to go home again. †The biggest advantage of treatment is that you are at home so quickly. I went out and the first thing my husband said was Are you ready yet?†