Dr. Hou Zhaohui of the Department of Otolaryngology, Beijing 301 Hospital specializes in surgical management of various ear-related diseases in otomicrosurgery and otoneurosurgery. For example, surgical management of chronic suppurative otitis media, middle ear cholesteatoma, otosclerosis, middle ear malformation and other conductive deafness and hearing reconstruction surgery; auditory implantation surgery for sensorineural deafness (cochlear implantation); surgical treatment of peripheral facial palsy and functional reconstruction; surgical treatment of eustachian tube dysfunction (eustachian tube balloon dilatation); surgical treatment of vertigo (endolymphatic bursa decompression and hemiangioplegia treatment) diagnosis and surgical treatment of temporal bone and lateral skull base tumors. If you need to see Dr. Hou Zhaohui for surgery, you can register at the hospital or make an appointment online, or apply for an additional number through the website, and then visit the clinic and be issued with a checklist. After the doctor sees the patient, he/she will issue a hospitalization application form, and then the patient will submit the application form to the inpatient management office to make an appointment for a bed. The waiting time for a bed is usually 1 to 1.5 months. However, for chronic suppurative otitis media, which is a chronic disease and can be operated on electively, patients can wait for a bed to be scheduled before surgery. After patients are notified of their admission by the hospital’s inpatient administration, a basic preoperative examination is performed within the first 1-2 days. Since surgery for otitis media is usually performed under general anesthesia, the preoperative examination then includes blood tests (routine blood count), hearing test, CT scan of the temporal bone, electrocardiogram, and chest X-ray. Within 3 days after surgery, you can be discharged from the hospital. Overall, for patients with chronic suppurative otitis media, hospitalization takes about 5 to 7 days and the cost of surgery is about $10,000 to $15,000, which will be adjusted depending on whether artificial hearing bones will be implanted after surgery. If hearing reconstruction is to be performed and an artificial hearing bone is implanted, the cost will increase by $4,000 to $5,000. Generally, incisional infections rarely occur after surgery, and if they do, they can usually be controlled with a local change of medication, and there is no need to extend the hospital stay. If a patient needs to have pharyngeal balloon dilatation surgery, Dr. Hou will take a one-day surgery, which means that the tests are prescribed in the outpatient clinic, and after the tests are complete, you can make an appointment with the doctor to come to the surgery on a certain day. On the day of surgery, the patient needs general anesthesia, the surgery is over, and the patient can be discharged the same day or the next day after he/she is awake. The main reason is to save time in the hospital and make it easier for the patient to get medical attention. However, because the pre-operative tests are done in the outpatient clinic, medical insurance patients are not reimbursed; for patients who pay for their own medical treatment, there are no such issues involved. Post-operative review follow-up is also important. Patients should bring their original imaging data before and after surgery, hearing test report forms, and information about the course of their hospitalization to the doctor for a follow-up. For patients who have undergone surgery by Dr. Hou, if the condition is stable after surgery and it is a long way to Beijing, the doctor can recommend a local experienced surgeon for a review and follow-up. If the patient still wants to be reviewed by the surgeon, then he or she can also contact Dr. Hou through the website, uploading photos of the review examination data regularly and describing the changes in his or her symptoms, so that the doctor can understand the patient’s post-operative recovery through the Internet. Therefore, it is not necessary to go to the hospital to see the surgeon for review and follow-up. Through the Internet, the round trip can be avoided, and at the same time, patients can get more timely and detailed post-operative guidance. When consulting online, the doctor can only rely on the patient’s uploaded condition information and films to determine the condition, as he or she is not able to see the patient in person in detail. Therefore, patients must follow the requirements and tips for uploading information, uploading clear and detailed examination information, and filling out a detailed procedure of seeing the patient (for more information, please see “How to take effective imaging films at home”). When patients consult online, please indicate which area they would like to consult, so that the doctor can target to solve the patient’s problem.