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Management of Hoarseness in
Primary Care
Dr Jeeve Kanagalingam
MA (Cantab), BM BCh (Oxon), DLO, DOHNS,
FRCS Eng (ORL-HNS), FAMS (ORL)
Consultant
Department of Otorhinolaryngology
TTSH
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Apr 1, 2010 Straits Times
Tom Jones scraps show
Resorts World Sentosa (RWS),
organisers of the Tom Jones event,
announced that the concert had been
called off due to Jones' being 'genuinely
ill'.
Welsh singing icon Tom Jones has
cancelled his show at Resorts World
Sentosa (RWS) - again.
The 69-year-old singer's doctor has
advised him against carrying on with
the show on Thursday night as he 'could
risk serious permanent damage to his
vocals'.
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Objectives
• What you should cover in the history
• What you should cover on examination
• What treatment should you offer
• When to refer
• What we can offer
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Objectives
• What you should cover in the history
• What you should cover on examination
• What treatment should you offer
• When to refer
• What we can offer
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1.Ask about onset and pattern
Gradual, prolonged
• Vocal strain / muscle
tension
• Reflux disease
• Nodules, Cysts
• Dysplasia / Cancer
Sudden, severe
• Laryngitis
• Haemorrhage
• (Psychogenic)
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2. Ask about recent respiratory
tract illness
• Coughing can
cause vocal fold
damage
• Talking /
teaching through
a respiratory
illness is
damaging
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3. Ask about…
a. Throat pain
b. Dysphagia
c. Referred otalgia
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• The relative risk (RR) of
laryngeal cancer between
smokers and non-smokers
is 15.5 (men) and 12.4
(women)
• Drinking 100g alcohol per
day (7 standard drinks)
confers an RR of 15 of
laryngeal cancer
• Using an additive risk
model, combined use
increases the risk by 50%
Raitiola HS, Pukander JS. Etiological factors of laryngeal cancer. Acta Otolaryngol Suppl (Stockh) 1997;529:215–7
Maier H, Sennewald E, Heller GF, Weidauer H. Chronic alcohol consumption—the key risk factor for pharyngeal cancer. Otolaryngol Head Neck
Surg 1994;110:168–73
4. Ask about smoking and drinking…
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5.Assess voice use and impact on
QOL
• Teachers,
promoters, sales
persons
• Singing in choir,
karaoke
• Ask about vocal
‘hygiene’ and
dietary habit
• Young children
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6. Reflux
7. Chest disease
8. Thyroid disease or surgery
9. Trauma
10. Neurological disease
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Objectives
• What you should cover in the history
• What you should cover on examination
• What treatment should you offer
• When to refer
• What we can offer
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Assess voice quality
GRBAS scale used
by speech
therapists:
G – Grade
R – Roughness
B – Breathiness
A – Aesthenia
S - Strain
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Examine the larynx?
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Examine the nose
• Rhinorrhoea
• Turbinate hypertrophy
• Nasal polyps
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Examine the neck
• Thyroid masses
• Cervical nodes,
particularly in
supraclavicular
fossa
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Objectives
• What you should cover in the history
• What you should cover on examination
• What treatment should you offer
• When to refer
• What we can offer
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Simple measures first!
Things that work!
• Adequate hydration
• Avoid strain
• Avoid caffeine
• Improve dietary habit
• Smoking cessation
• Alcohol reduction
Things that don’t!
• Mentholated lozenges
• Mucolytics
• Danzen
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Treat the obvious!
• Treat URTIs
• Treat Rhinitis
• Treat obvious reflux
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Objectives
• What you should cover in the history
• What you should cover on examination
• What treatment should you offer
• When to refer
• What we can offer
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Red flags
• Stridor
• Neck masses
• Dysphagia ,
odynophagia or
referred otalgia
• Smoker or drinker with
> 3 weeks of
hoarseness
Immediate < 24
hours
Urgent < 2
weeks
Refer all other cases that are not resolving after 6 weeks
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Objectives
• What you should cover in the history
• What you should cover on examination
• What treatment should you offer
• When to refer
• What we can offer
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Direct access Voice
Clinic
3 surgeons and 2 speech
therapist
Video stroboscopy
Full complement of
phonosurgery – laser
surgery and external
framework surgery
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A Singapore Idol finalist!
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Vocal nodules in a teacher
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Cord palsy due to lung cancer
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Most cases do not require surgery
Medical measures
• Medical treatment of reflux
• Vocal hygiene
• Speech therapy
• Gastroenterology and
neurology assessments
Surgery
• Endoscopic laryngeal
microsurgery
• Botox injections for
spasmodic dysphonia
• Laser surgery
• External framework surgery
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Medialisation thyroplasty with titanium
implant
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Medialisation thyroplasty with titanium
implant
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Thank You