Mr Sarwat Sadek

Medical qualifications

MB BCh, FRCSI, FRCS, FRCS (ORL-HNS)

Year of qualification:

1974

Areas of expertise:

ENT (Otolaryngology), Paediatric ENT, Rhinology, Otology, Nasal and Sinus Disorders

Practising at:

Taunton Hospital

Clinics:

  • Weekly Wednesday 15:00 - 18:00

Member of:

  • British Medical Association
  • British Rhinological Society
  • British Association of Endocrine Surgeons
  • Medical Defent Unit
  • Member of the Court of Examiners for The Intercollegiate MRCS for the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Contact details:

01823 250 611
01823 250 610

Profile:

Mr Sadek was appointed to the post of Consultant Otolaryngologist and Head & Neck Surgeon at Musgrove Park Hospital on in 2000. He obtained his MB BCh from Ain-Shams University, Cairo in 1974 and completed all his basic and higher surgical training in the UK. He obtained his FRCS in 1983 from Dublin, and subsequently obtained his FRCS (ORL-HNS) in 1999 and his CCST in June 2000. He was awarded the Fellowship ad eundem from the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2008.

Mr Sadek has been practicing ENT for almost 30 years, 13 of them as a Consultant and Clinical Lead in the United Arab Emirates and from July 2000 at Musgrove Park Hospital, where he was Audit Lead for about 4 years.

He has a wide range of experience in all aspects of adult and paediatric ENT and Head & Neck Surgery and is highly experienced in most otological procedures. In Head & Neck Surgery Mr Sadek gained substantive experience in salivary gland and thyroid surgery. In paediatric otolaryngology he has dealt with several cases of congenital choanal atresia, on which he has several publications as well as a patent design for a Sadek Choanal Atresia Stent for the treatment of the condition (patent number US6606995).

His special interest is Rhinology and Thyroid surgery. He has substantive skills in functional endoscopic sinus surgery and Rhinoplasty, having performed over 300 cases of the latter.

Research:

 Papers include:

  1. Efficacy of Topical Anaesthesia in Outpatient Flexible Nasendoscopy
  2. Post-Operative Prophylactic Antibiotics in Tonsillectomy

 

Other interests:

Books published:

  1. Pocket E.N.T. Emergencies
  2. Congenital Bilateral Choanal Atresia International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
  3. Teflon Injection of the Vocal Cords under General Anaesthsia 
  4. A Novel Stenting Technique for Congenital Choanal Atresia (Abstract) Laryngo-Rhino-Otologie

 

Personal interests:

Scuba Diving: He regularly dives in the Gulf including night dives. He hopes to dive at some stage in the Red Sea and Maldives.

Sea Fishing: He is an avid sea fisherman.

Music: He enjoys playing the drums with his children who sing and play guitar and piano. His wife also participates, as she is a very good amateur singer

Motorbiking: He enjoys riding my Triumph Bonneville T100.

Languages spoken:

French, Arabic

Current posts:

Consultant, Nuffield Health Taunton Hospital
Consultant, Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

Services that this consultant provides:

Adenoidectomy
Anosmia
Antral Washout
Deafness
Deviating Septum
Ear
Ear Ache
Glue Ear
Head and Neck Oncology
Hearing Loss
Hoarse Voice
Labyrinthitis
Laryngitis
Menieres Disease
Nasal Septal Perforation
Pinnaplasty
Platoplasty
Polypectomy
Quinsy
Rhinitis
Rhinoplasty
Rhinosinusitis
Snoring
Throat Cyst
Thyroid
Tinnitus
Tonsillitis
Vertigo
Vocal Cord Polyps