Journal Reviews

Quick and valid: a new measure of aphasia

4 May 2021 | | Speech and Language Therapy | aphasia, conversation, evaluation, participation, quality of life, severity

Aphasia can be caused by a stroke, brain injury or dementia. It is defined as a language disorder that impacts the domains of speaking, understanding, reading and writing. Given the impact on quality of life and conversation, there is a...

CATE in people with dementia

7 January 2021 | | Audiology - Adult | aged care home, Cortical automatic threshold estimation, auditory evoked potential, dementia, hearing evaluation, hearing impairment, pure-tone audiometry

Behavioural hearing tests may be difficult to perform for people with dementia. The aim of this study was to investigate if the cortical automatic threshold estimation (CATE) may be used as an alternative to the pure tone audiometry test. Six...

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Laryngeal evaluation during COVID-19 using transcervical ultrasonography

9 September 2020 | | Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, COVID-19 | COVID-19, coronavirus, laryngeal evaluation, laryngeal ultrasound, vocal cord paralysis, vocal cord paresis

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the authors highlight their protocol of transcutaneous laryngeal ultrasonography as an alternative to flexible fibreoptic laryngoscopy when appropriate. This is to reduce the risk of aerosolisation posed by laryngoscopy. Ultrasonography is a rapid, non-invasive...

Online group therapy is easier but is it better?

1 September 2019 | | Speech and Language Therapy | Telerehabilitation, aphasia, complex intervention, evaluation, group therapy

Aphasia is a communication disability caused by stroke, brain injury or dementia. People with aphasia benefit from both the emotional and communication support that group therapy can provide, yet there can be many barriers to accessing this type of intervention,...

Preoperative CT checklist (using the ‘CLOSE’ mnemonic) improves identification of anatomical variants for endoscopic sinus surgery

1 July 2018 | | CLOSE criteria, ESS, checklist, preoperative evaluation, resident training, sinus CT, sinus surger

Computed tomography (CT) scans of the paranasal sinuses act as roadmaps for endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) and careful inspection preoperatively warns the operating surgeon of critical anatomical variants. This study aimed to investigate if implementation of a pre-ESS CT checklist...

Classification of maxillofacial pain

1 January 2017 | | Classification, Craniofacial pain, Diagnostic evaluation, Diagnostic imaging, Differential diagnosis, Maxillofacial pain, Orofacial pain, Physical examination

The patient that presents with oral and facial pain can prove a diagnostic conundrum. Whilst most often dental causes can explain the origin and help from our maxillofacial colleagues is warranted, it is useful to have a system for approaching...

Clinical assessment in OSA

1 January 2016 | | airway evaluation, airway classification, Müller maneuver, pharyngometry

This paper divides the assessment up into anatomical (nasal and oropharyngeal), endoscopic and imaging. It points out the salient features to look out for in OSA patients with regards the nasal valve and also oropharyngeal anatomy, with tonsil hypertrophy grading...

Objective versus subjective – again!

1 September 2014 | | inferior turbinate hypertrophy, nasal objective evaluation, nasal obstruction, nonallergic rhinitis, radiofrequency ablation, rhinomanometry, turbinate surgery, visual analogue scale

The use of objective measurements of nasal airflow has a long history; however, its clinical application remains, at most, patchy. The main reason for that has been the lack of convincing studies showing a good correlation between the findings of,...