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Difficult Airways - April 2015 - Subscribe to Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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A fter rounds of medications fail to clear patients' stuffy, congested heads, they want a fix and they want it fast. While there is no cure for chronic sinusitis, new treat- ment options and surgical technologies are providing easier and more effective relief to patients. "The treat- ments are aimed at draining the sinuses while being painless to the patient and as long-lasting as they can be, so patients don't have fre- quent recurrences," says Martin L. Hopp, MD, PhD, medical director of the Cedars-Sinai Sinus Center in Los Angeles. With technology like drug-eluting stents, balloon sinuplasty and ENT 9 0 O U T P A T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E | A P R I L 2 0 1 5 Clear your patients' heads with balloon sinuplasty, image-guided navigation and steroid-eluting stents. Kendal Gapinski Associate Editor z SINUS SURGERY Natan Scher, MD, performs sinus surgery at Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, Ill. Ingalls Memorial Hospital

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