I. Name of unit: Faculty – Department of Otorhinolaryngology (BM6)
II. History of formation: The Faculty – Department celebrates its anniversary on March 26.
Contact information: Faculty – Department of Otolaryngology/Military Hospital 103, No. 261 Phung Hung, Phuc La, Ha Dong, Hanoi
Phone: 069.566553
Email:
III. Mission and functions:
* Education and Training:
– Ensuring the comprehensive Ear, Nose, and Throat teaching program for long-term military medicine, extended civilian medicine, nursing bachelor’s classes, and other pertinent courses at the university level.
– Conducting postgraduate training, including Master’s degree, resident doctor, specialist level II, specialist level I, and specialist orientation in ENT. Providing education for graduates and specialists in related fields. Providing continuous training programs for Ear, Nose, and Throat specialists in both military and civilian hospitals, as well as hospitals requiring specialized training.
* Medical Treatment:
– Conducting examinations and providing emergency care for diseases within the Ear, Nose, and Throat specialty, as well as certain head and neck diseases. This service is extended to soldiers, policy families, wounded soldiers, insured individuals with health insurance, and the general public.
* Scientific Research:
– Actively participating in scientific research projects at all levels within the Ear, Nose, and Throat field and various related areas.
* Other responsibilities:
– Undertaking regular and unforeseen tasks assigned by the hospital, including participation in United Nations peacekeeping forces and field hospitals as needed. Conducting on-site training and skill transfer for modern surgical techniques to meet the needs of military hospitals and other military-civilian healthcare facilities. Contributing to medical examinations, policy work, and mass mobilization efforts.
IV. Achievements
– Awarded a third-class victory medal.
– Earned 08 titles as a ‘Determination to Win’ unit.
– Consistently achieved the title of Advanced Unit over many years, accompanied by numerous certificates of merit.

TYPICAL PROFESSIONAL TECHNIQUES OF THE FACULTY – DEPARTMENT
I. Ear, nose and throat examination techniques
• Conducting examinations for ENT diseases utilizing standard instruments.
• Performing medical examinations with both rigid and flexible tube ENT endoscopic tools.
• Utilizing modern, soundproof rooms and advanced machinery for precise measurements of hearing and tympanometry.
II. ENT procedures
• Performing procedures such as sinus puncture, eustachian tube clearing, pharyngeal burning, nasal turbinate burning, and proetz.
• Utilizing an American cryotherapy machine for the treatment of chronic pharyngitis, chronic tonsillitis, and small benign tumors in the nose and throat.
• Employing a cold light rigid endoscope to remove foreign bodies from the ENT system, those originating from food intake, and those lodged in the airways.
• Administering emergency treatment for ENT bleeding.
• Applying conservative correction techniques for injuries causing deformations in the sinus area.

III. Key techniques
1. Ear-Mastoid Procedures:
• Conducting radical and modified radical surgeries to address mastoiditis.
• Performing radical mastoidectomy surgery, coupled with interventions to manage complications like meningitis, brain abscess, lateral phlebitis, peripheral cranial nerve VII paralysis, and external mastoiditis.
• Executing mastoid surgery in conjunction with one-stage tympanoplasty, utilizing the temporalis muscle fascia and employing a surgical microscope.
• Carrying out simple tympanoplasty procedures under endoscopy, using either temporalis muscle fascia or autologous fat.
• Addressing a spectrum of congenital or acquired conditions, including fistula, malformations, as well as benign or malignant tumors in the outer ear.
• Treating injuries or wounds affecting the mastoid ear.
Tympanoplasty surgery
2. Nasal region
• Performing classic sinus surgeries, including Ethmoid curettage, Caldwell-Luc, nasal ethmoid curettage, nasal polyp removal, turbinate or partial turbinate resection, septum correction surgery, and frontal sinus surgery.
• Conducting surgeries for nasal and sinus tumors, such as nasal vestibular cyst, papilloma, nasal cavity hemangioma, bone tumor, ethmoidal myxoma, and ethmoidal cancer.
• Utilizing autologous materials to narrow the nasal cavity as a treatment for atrophic rhinitis.
• Performing Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (FESS).
• Carrying out endoscopic surgery to correct the septum.
• Providing orthopedic surgery for sinus injuries.

Endoscopic sinus surgery
3. Pharynx – larynx
• Conducting tonsillectomy and adenoid curettage surgery using traditional instruments.
• Performing tonsil surgery and adenoid curettage under endotracheal anesthesia with an ablation knife that utilizes molecular resonance technology.
• Undertaking surgery for benign tumors or chronic inflammation of the hypopharynx and larynx through laryngoscopic suspension, employing laryngeal microsurgical instruments.
• Executing vocal cord resection and partial laryngectomy as part of the treatment for laryngeal cancer.

Tonsillectomy surgery

Endoscopic laryngeal microsurgery to remove vocal cord nodules

4. Various head and neck surgical procedures
• Performing excisions and shaping procedures for certain skin cancers in the head and neck region.
• Conducting surgeries to eliminate metastatic cervical lymph nodes associated with unknown primary cancer.
• Undertaking procedures to remove thyrohyoid fistulas, pyriform sinus fistulas, and gill cysts.
• Addressing injuries and addressing prior neck traumas through surgical interventions.
• Executing emergency tracheostomy when necessary.
• Collaborating in surgeries with various related specialties, including maxillofacial and ophthalmic surgeries.