Department of otorhinolaryngology

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The Department of Otorhinolaryngology is located on the basis of the State Medical Institution of the Republic of Moldova "Mordovia Republican Central Clinical Hospital" at the address: Republic of Mordovia, Saransk, Pobedy str. 14/5. The otolaryngology department is located on the 7th floor of a nine-storey surgical building. The department is deployed for 45 beds. This is the only specialized department in the Republic of Mordovia, which provides emergency and planned care for pathology of ENT organs.

Department Head Velmiskina Irina Vasilyevna, doctor of the highest qualification category, Candidate of Medical Sciences, freelance specialist of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Moldova.

Staff of the department:

• Head of Department – 1 person;
• Doctors – 4 people;
• Nurses - 14 people;
• Junior medical staff – 9 people.

Staff of the department of otorhinolaryngology

The department is equipped with modern equipment for inpatient treatment of patients according to the standards of equipment for the profile of otorhinolaryngology, which was highly appreciated during the inspection of Roszdravnadzor of Russia in October 2017.

The doctors of the department provide qualified round-the-clock emergency, planned surgical and conservative care to the urban and rural population of the Republic of Moldova. Patients are being admitted to a consultative polyclinic, where patients are selected for hospitalization and advisory assistance is provided.

The main activities of the department:

• Diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory and allergic diseases of the paranasal sinuses, pharynx, larynx and ear;
• Treatment of acute purulent diseases of ENT organs and their complications;
• Foreign bodies of the pharynx, larynx, ear and nose;
• Treatment of nosebleeds, bleeding from the pharynx, ear;
• Treatment of acute sensorineural hearing loss of various etiologies;
• Surgical treatment of diseases of ENT organs;
• Complex diagnostics and surgical treatment of rhinogenic and otogenic intracranial purulent complications;
• Diagnosis and early detection of oncological diseases of ENT organs.

The following types of operations are performed for diseases of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses:

• Corrective operations on the nasal septum and paranasal sinuses, including deformities of the external nose as part of rhinoseptoplasty;
• Radio wave and shaver destruction of the lower nasal conchae in vasomotor and allergic rhinitis;
• Endoscopic operations: nasal polypotomy, microhaimorotomy, polysinusotomy.

In diseases of the pharynx:

• Removal of palatine tonsils (tonsillectomy) in chronic tonsillitis under general and local anesthesia;
• Surgical treatment of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.

In diseases of the larynx:

• Endoscopic removal of laryngeal neoplasms;
• Performing reconstructive surgical interventions for chronic scar stenosis of the larynx and trachea.

For diseases of the ears:

• Sanitizing and reconstructive hearing-improving operations in patients with purulent otitis media using microsurgical techniques.

These techniques have a number of advantages:

• Low injury rate;
• Reduction of the postoperative period in the hospital.

Sparing and organ-preserving methods of surgical treatment of ear, throat and nose neoplasms are also used, including using video endoscopic and microsurgical technologies and a radio wave scalpel, as well as cryodestruction.

As part of the provision of high-tech assistance to the population in the otorhinolaryngological department, reconstructive operations are performed on the sound-conducting apparatus of the middle ear; surgical treatment of benign neoplasms of the paranasal sinuses, the base of the skull and middle ear; reconstructive plastic restoration of the functions of the larynx and trachea.