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In conversation with Catherine Rennie

10 August 2021 | | ENTA-ENT
Miss Catherine Rennie has recently been recognised as one of the Women’s Engineering Society’s (WES) Top 50 Women in Engineering 2021. According to WES, these awards celebrate the “best, brightest and bravest women in engineering, who recognise a problem, then...

Music and cochlear implants

5 June 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Paediatrics
Introduction The introduction of multichannel cochlear implants (CIs) in the early 1980s provided children and adults with severe and profound hearing losses with greatly improved speech perception skills. In this paper, however, I am going to focus on an area...

Bringing space science to balance and tinnitus

1 July 2016 | | ENTA-Vestibular Disorders
Jameel Muzaffar is a specialist registrar in ENT surgery in the West Midlands. His research interests include applications of imaging to ENT. Chris Coulson is a consultant otologist, particularly interested in the development of technological solutions. He is part of...

Aetiology, investigation and acute management of sudden sensorineural hearing loss

1 September 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
The cause of a single sided sensorineural hearing loss has a wide variety of aetiologies. This review, by Edwin Halliday, looks specifically at the differential diagnostic causes of a sudden sensorineural hearing loss, the relevant investigations and the management should...

Retrograde cricopharyngeal dysfunction (RCPD) - inability to burp: treatment with Botox injection

3 July 2023 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
As unusual as it may sound, some people have great difficulty burping. We hear of one approach to tackling this problem. Retrograde cricopharyngeal dysfunction (RCPD) is a condition presenting with inability to burp, resulting in gaseous distension of the digestive...

Translating research – transforming lives: the BACO 2020 academic programme

7 January 2020 | | ENTA-ENT
The main attraction of any conference or event is, of course, the academic programme of lectures, workshops and education. Hisham Mehanna, BACO 2020 Academic Chair, and Paul Nankivell, Academic Vice Chair, give us an overview of what to expected in...

Head and neck robotic surgery – considerations for the surgical trainee

4 November 2021 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck
In 2021, training in head and neck cancer surgery would be incomplete without some robotic resections under the belt. Henry Zhang explains how he did it and outlines the options available. With a wide range of applications in both benign...

ENT in Ethiopia: Aksum-Barts Partnership

1 July 2017 | | ENTA-ENT
In keeping with many other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopia has a chronic lack of hospitals and doctors. Nadia Ashraf and Tim Crocker-Buqué tell us about a project which aims to improve training in ENT, in a hospital that has...

Leadership reflections

1 September 2019 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
For the past year, Lisa Vaughan Christensen has been the President of the American Academy of Audiology. In this article, she shares the journey that led her to this position and offers some brilliant advice to anyone interested in leadership....

Chocolates for laryngectomees

8 December 2020 | | ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA-ENT
When The Chocolate Line in Bruges, Belgium, was approached by the charity, Shout at Cancer, there was always going to be something very special and innovative in the pipeline! Shout at Cancer’s Thomas Moors has been chatting with Julius Persoone,...

Interacoustics introduces the game-changing Audible Contrast Threshold (ACT™) test

18 October 2023 | Research & Development
For more than a century, hearing aids have been prescribed based solely on the pure tone audiogram.With the introduction of ACT, Interacoustics goes beyond the audiogram, and is now able to address the number one complaint from people with hearing loss: hearing conversations in noisy situations.

The role, aims and organisation of the 2017 IFOS World Congress

1 May 2017 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA-Paediatrics, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA-Skull Base Surgery, ENTA-Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery, ENTA-Auditory Implants
IFOS is a truly international organisation – indeed, its rules state that the Executive Committee must have representation from every continent. IFOS President, Chong Sun Kim, tells us more. Dear friends and colleagues, I am very pleased to welcome all...