Medical Technology and Innovations

At Washington Hospital Center, our ENT physicians use cutting-edge technologies for diagnosis, treatment and surgery. Being a member of a department within a major hospital center means our doctors can recommend imaging studies, diagnostic testing, and treatment that no other hospital in the national capital region can offer.

Further, our doctors use an interdisciplinary approach to diagnosis and treatment, so that our patients know that experts in many different specialties of medicine are consulting on their treatment plans.

We offer the following medical technology for our patients:

Hearing & Balance Tests

• Audiometry and Typanometry
• Electronystagmography, or balance test (ENG)
• Electrocochleography (ECOG)
• Brainstem auditory evoked response audiometry (BAER, BSER)
• VEMP (Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials)

Diagnostic Imaging

• MRI
• CT scan

Surgical Technologies

• Stryker Image Guidance
• Balloon sinuplasty
• Coblation for inferior turbinates, tonsils, tongue, and soft palate
• Somnoplasty for inferior turbinates, tongue, and soft palate
• Endoscopy

Cancer Therapies

• Trilogy for radiation therapy
• Gamma knife for ear tumors