Emma Stapleton

Consultant Otolaryngologist

Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK.

ENT Features – Section Editor

Latest Contribution

Endoscopic Ear Surgery

1 March 2015 | | Otology

This book, published in March 2014, aims to explore the emerging role of endoscopy in the evolution of otological surgery, and details both basic and advanced endoscopic ear surgery techniques in clear text supplemented by beautiful images. It opens with...

The effect of sleep deprivation on auditory processing

1 March 2015 | | Sleep Deprivation, Pitch Discrimination, Aptitude, Frontal Lobe, Arousal, Short-Term Memory, Hearing, Sleep, Psychology

This article caught my eye for personal and professional reasons. As a full time ENT trainee working 24-hour on-calls, I also have young children who have never slept through the night and don’t respect weekends or days off. My FRCS...

Full Vs tapered dose of oral prednisolone for sudden sensorineural hearing loss

1 March 2015 | | Otology

I was drawn in by the title of this article, in the expectation that it might be a randomised controlled trial, but it was not. Sudden sensorineural hearing loss is an uncommon condition, which has a potentially disastrous outcome, so...