Resources

Cocaine Induced ENT pseudo-GPA (CIE pGPA)

Cocaine has always been known to adversely affect the nose, often resulting in perforations of the nasal septum. However, over the last couple of decades, patients with known cocaine abuse have presented with severe nasal deformities and associated tissue loss affecting the nose, face and palate. This is now recognised as a drug-induced vasculitis that has several characteristics and similarities to granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA). The condition was initially sporadic but is becoming much more common. The attached guidelines, jointly written by BRS, BSFPS and ENT UK, offer information to ENT surgeons and other interested healthcare professionals who are unfamiliar with the condition but also offer some guidance on terminology and clinical management. Andrew Swift and Peter Andrews

ESS - Endoscopic Sinus Surgery - Pathway

Nasal Airway Surgery - Pathway

Septoplasty/functional septorhinoplasty/turbinate surgery

Alternative nasal steroid spray and drop medications

Cessation of Flixonase nasule drop production in the UK: BRS guidelines and recommendations for alternative nasal steroid spray and drop medications in the treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis in adults.

Nose bleed (epistaxis) - Global ENT Guideline

The Global ENT Guidelines have been prepared as a joint project between ENT UK (Global Health Committee) and Global OHNS.  The aim of these guidelines is to provide a free resource, readily accessible, for anyone providing ENT care in...

Local Anaesthetic Rhinological Surgery (LARS)

Across the UK, there is increased interest in performing rhinological procedures under local anaesthesia. There are many perceived advantages: shorter patient pathway, expedited recovery, increased turnover, better use of resources particularly...

Evidence-Based Interventions (EBI) programme video: snoring surgery in the absence of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA)

As part of the EBI programme guidance, the NHS and key stakeholders have produced a short video explaining why snoring surgery in the absence of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) has been included in the EBI guidance.

Guideline for management of idiopathic epistaxis in adults

The NICE guideline on gammaCore for cluster headache

The NICE guideline on intranasal phototherapy for allergic rhinitis