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UCL, UCLH and Formula One develop life-saving breathing aids for the NHS

31 March 2020 | COVID-19

A breathing aid that can help keep Covid-19 patients out of intensive care, adapted by mechanical engineers at UCL and clinicians at UCLH working with Mercedes-AMG High Performance Powertrains (Mercedes-AMG HPP), has been approved for use in the NHS. For...

Auditory processing in children with unilateral hearing loss

1 September 2014 | Claudia Nogueira | unilateral hearing loss (UHL), P300, auditory plasticity, cortical reorganization

It is a common assumption that unilateral hearing loss (UHL) in children is of little consequence because appropriate development of speech and language can still occur with one normal hearing ear. Recent studies, however, suggest that there are significant differences...

A new clinical device to monitor nasal blockage

1 March 2017 | Chia-Hung Li, Joanne Rimmer

Chia-Hung Li, a Medical Device PhD student from University College London’s (UCL) Institute of Healthcare Engineering, is currently leading a PhD project to develop a clinical device to monitor nasal blockage. Jo Rimmer spoke to him about what he is...

Electrodes and the stapedial reflex

1 November 2019 | Badr Eldin Mostafa | Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Adult, Otology

This study had two main objectives: testing the efficiency of the sequential stimulation of four different electrodes versus a single electrode on the threshold of the stapedial reflex; and correlating the values with the minimum comfort level (MCL). The study...

Introduction to speech testing

4 May 2023 | Janet R Schoepflin (Prof) | Audiology - Adult, Speech and Language Therapy

Let’s get back to basics: Dr Schoepflin introduces the concepts behind speech testing for hearing care professionals. While pure tone threshold testing is considered the ‘gold standard’ for assessing auditory sensitivity, the results of pure tone testing provide only limited...

COVID-19: UCT-Africa Virtual ENT transcends academic silos

9 September 2020 | Taseer F Din, Nicholas Goncalves, Johan Fagan (Prof) | ENT

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a global catastrophe with far-reaching consequences felt across many fronts around the world. One such aspect is the training of the future generation of ENT surgeons. With routine elective activity curtailed, academic conferences cancelled, and...

Audible Contrast Threshold – a new test to guide setting help-in-noise features in hearing aids

4 March 2024 | Leigh Martin | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic

A new diagnostic test that is quick and has directly applicable results to hearing aid settings has arrived, but how does it work? Leigh Martin has the answers. In an earlier article for ENT & Audiology News, Parmar and Rajasingam...

Clinical and financial success by providing specialised audiological tinnitus management

8 January 2024 | Jason Leyendecker | Audiology - Adult, Tinnitus

Diagnosis and management of a patient with chronic subjective tinnitus is one of the most labour-intensive areas of hearing healthcare. This is one reason some hearing care providers opt to exclude specialised tinnitus care from their practice: it may not...

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