Ear, Nose and Throat Nursing: Review of Anatomy and Physiology, the ENT Examination and Common Conditions with Their Nursing Management

A KMTC ear, nose and throat nursing course that opens with the review of the anatomy and physiology of the ear as the organ of hearing and balance, its outer, middle and inner parts and the structures of the petrous temporal bone, then the nose, the paranasal sinuses and the pharynx and larynx. It takes the ENT history and examination with the instruments and the hearing tests, and the common conditions - the external ear infections, otitis media and its complications including mastoiditis, deafness, epistaxis, rhinitis, sinusitis, tonsillitis, pharyngitis and laryngitis, airway obstruction and foreign bodies, and tumours of the larynx and post-nasal space - each with its causes, clinical features, management, the nursing care around the procedures and the prevention.