Video otoscopy
6 January 2023
| Joanna Lemanska
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ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
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Middle Ear, paediatric, tele-audiology/tele-health, video otoscopy
The COVID-19 pandemic and challenges in offering health services at the time showed how useful telehealth services can be. One of the undoubted benefits of video otoscopy is that both images and recordings can be sent to specialists for assessments....
Music training for cochlear implant users
3 November 2022
| Kerri Millward
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ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
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Cochlear implants, Music enjoyment, Music training, Rehabilitation
The ability to enjoy music is something that is important to most people and contributes to wellbeing, as well as holding cultural significance. However, the speech signal is generally prioritised for those with cochlear implants (and indeed hearing aids). Improving...
Electrocochleography and cochlear implants programming
3 November 2022
| Joanna Lemanska
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ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
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CI programming, Cochlear implant, electrocochleography (ECochG), paediatric
Cochlear implants (CIs) often are the only option for people with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss to be able to hear. Therefore, effective CI programming seems very important, especially in children who are still developing their speech. Using acoustic...
Pharmacological treatment of glue ear in children
5 July 2022
| Praneta Kulloo
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ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, Otology
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Antihistamines, leukotriene receptor antagonist, Carbocysteine, Meta-analysis, Otitis media with effusion, Steroid nasal spray, Systematic review
Otitis media with effusion (OME), also known as glue ear, is a common cause of hearing loss in children. Most cases resolve spontaneously within three months. Early and proper management of OME can help avoid hearing and speech impairment that...
How interaural level differences differ between children with bilateral cochlear implants and their normally-hearing peers
5 July 2022
| Kerri Millward
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ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
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Bilateral Cochlear Implants, Children, Interaural Level Difference, Localization
A group in the Netherlands investigated interaural level differences (ILDs) in children who were bilaterally implanted with cochlear implants (CIs) and compared their performance to their normally-hearing peers. ILDs are used to localise sound and rely on the high-frequency cues....
Clinical Practice Guideline on Tympanostomy Tube in Children Update (AAO-HNS)
3 May 2022
| Richard (Wei Chern) Gan
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ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, Otology, Paediatric ENT
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developmental delay disorders, grommets, middle ear effusion, otitis media, otorrhea, pediatric otolaryngology, tympanostomy tubes
The American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Foundation’s ‘Clinical Practice Guideline: Tympanostomy Tubes in Children (Update)’ has been recently published - an update of the original 2013 guideline. This article forms an executive summary to accompany the full guideline....
Cochlear implantation in asymmetric hearing loss
2 March 2022
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ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
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Asymmetric sensorineural hearing loss, Cochlear implantation
Criteria for cochlear implantation (CI) is a constant topic of debate. The UK traditionally had relatively restrictive guidance, although this has been greatly improved by more recent guidance released in 2019. Nevertheless, because of the lack of evidence for cost-effectiveness,...
All you need to know about childhood hearing loss - an update
This is an excellent update on childhood hearing loss. It is a comprehensive collection of five chapters, providing a summary of a broad range of practice guidelines to inform screening, diagnosis, and management of hearing loss in children. It has...
The basis of auditory processing disorder: what can we learn from corticals?
5 January 2022
| Robert Nash
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ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, Paediatric ENT
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Auditory perception, Auditory processing disorder, Child, Cortical auditory evoked potential, Hearing
Auditory processing disorder (APD) is a poorly understood, heterogenous and surprisingly common condition. It manifests as a perceptual difficulty in centrally processing auditory information. Diagnosis is usually based on a variety of behavioural tests involving verbal and non-verbal assessments. In...
Contralateral OAEs in children
6 September 2021
| Joanna Lemanska
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ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
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Otoacoustic emissions, medial olivocochlear efferents, paediatric, reliability, spontaneous otoacoustic emissions
Several studies indicate that small changes in the medial olivocochlear (MOC) reflex may possibly be associated with certain pathologies. This could be measured by using contralateral acoustic stimulation (CAS) and observing suppression in otoacoustic emissions (OEAs). The main aim of...
Smartphone hearing test
7 January 2021
| Joanna Lemanska
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ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
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Hearing loss, mass screening, mobile applications, sensitivity and specificity
Our Editors’ Choice for this edition reviews an article looking at the use of a smartphone app for hearing screening. We have all had to integrate telehealth into our practice to some extent recently and this paper examines a teleaudiology...
A new tool for assessing otoscopy skills
2 November 2020
| Lucy Dalton
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ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, Neurotology, Otology, Paediatric ENT
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evidence-based medical education, handheld otoscopy, otology, standard setting, standardized assessment
Medical and audiology students need to be proficient in performing otoscopy in order to undertake the routine practice required of them at work upon graduation. One significant challenge in teaching otoscopy is the lack of objective and validated assessment tools...
