Adding Office-Based Laryngeal Procedures to Your Practice Can Benefit Patients

by Thomas R. Collins •

There’s also the possibility of an allergy to anesthetics or other medications. An allergy to benzocaine is more likely than one to lidocaine, he noted. Certain complications tend to be procedure-specific. Flexible scope procedures bring a risk of infection and epistaxis. An injection comes with a risk of direct trauma, hematoma, or injection misplacement. Lasers can involve direct trauma or virions carried by the laser plume. “If you perform any procedure a lot,” he said, “you will get a complication.”

Thomas Collins is a freelance medical writer based in Florida.

Take-Home Points

  • Consider using the endoscopy suite at your hospital for awake laryngeal procedures.
  • Having the hospital buy the laser can help your practice clear a cost hurdle when you are adding awake laryngeal procedures to a private practice.
  • Proper positioning and finesse in getting patients to relax are key to smooth procedures.