Journal Reviews

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How patients reacted to postponement of cochlear implant surgery due to COVID-19

2 March 2022 | | Otology, COVID-19 | Cochlear Implantation, Communication, Covid-19, Pandemics, Psychology, Qualitative Research, Quality Of Life

The onset of COVID-19 in 2020 required widespread cancellation of elective surgeries, one of these being cochlear implant for profoundly deafened adults and post-lingually deafened children. Through a questionnaire, to which 23 out of 38 patients responded, this qualitative study...

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...