The clinical organizes the third ear, nose, and larynx diseases refresher course.
aimed at professionals in primary care.
Madrid, February 2013.- The Otorhinolaryngology service of the Hospital clinical San Carlos, one of the oldest in Spain and a pioneer in the development and innovation of techniques and medical processes, organizes, in collaboration with the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a course aimed at primary care healthcare professionals.
This training activity which directs and coordinates the doctors JoaquÃn Poch and Fernando RodrÃguez, Chief and Deputy of the aforementioned service respectively, aims to provide attendees of knowledge skills and abilities sufficient to handle the pathologies most common otorhinolaryngologic and which constitute one of the FAQ in the field of primary health care.
From clinical cases of everyday presentation in the field of health centers, participants progress in learning, from the reason for the paciente-problema query to its resolution. It will specifically train on the acquisition of practical skills exploration ORL and therapeutic management of diseases most common otorhinolaryngologic in ear, nose and larynx and pharynx area, such as hearing loss, otalgia, Otitis and voice disorders. peripheral facial palsy, disorders of taste and smell, vestibular, pain rehabilitation of throat and nasal obstruction etc.
the doctors Fernando Rodriguez and JoaquÃn Poch, Deputy and Chief of Otolaryngology of the Hospital ClÃnico San Carlos service.
Updating clinical guidelines and protocols agreed at the international level as the POLINA or EPOS, in early diagnosis of oncological pathology, especially cancers of larynx, or current treatment of deafness with new cochlear or the osseointegrated implants, are the central themes of this activity.
Each gives training session ended with exposure of the ENT process management algorithms and with a short presentation on the theoretical foundations of its management.
Pathology common in primary care
The family doctor is facing in its daily consultation with numerous patients pathology located in ENT, many of these are evident (sore throat, otalgia, facial paralysis…); However, some others are not frequent reason for consultation despite its high incidence, due to cultural issues or bad health education.
ENT pathology has one high incidence of acute conditions such as chronic and this fact is reflected in the attention give priority it where pediatricians and family physicians describe that you between 40% and 49% of your daily clinical practice is related to hard of hearingnose and throat. This high flow of consultation determines that, on many occasions, patients are referred with nonspecific symptoms, which may be due to multiple diseases, without having carried out a medical history and proper orientation; or, in other cases, presenting acute diseases that could be resolved at the level of care giving priority to it, or chronic, already known and studied, diseases that require only symptomatic in periods of flare-ups treatment.
