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Cochlear Implants - Basic Textbook

4 July 2024 | | Auditory Implants, Otology
The book has been written by the sole author Dr Sandro Burdo MD. He is based at the Circolo Hospital in Varese where he has established his practice and wealth of experience. As the title indicates, this is an encompassing...
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Teleaudiology Today: Remote Assessment and Management of Hearing Loss

4 July 2024 | | Audiology - Adult
The Covid crisis saw many audiology services, private and public, scramble to find other methods of continuing to deliver services to new and existing patients/clients. This textbook builds on international research that the authors published during that time and the...

Hearing rehabilitation after vestibular schwannoma surgery

27 February 2020 | | ENT, Otology, Vestibular Disorders
Hearing rehabilitation is a key focus of the management of patients with vestibular schwannoma. But how do we rehabilitate hearing when the cochlear nerve has been damaged by tumour, irradiation, or resective surgery? Mathieu Trudel, Scott Rutherford and Simon Lloyd...

Branchio Oto Renal syndrome

1 May 2015 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Otology, Genetics
Branchio Oto Renal Syndrome (BOR) is an autosomal dominant disorder with branchial, otologic and renal manifestations. The presence of clinical signs varies among and within affected families. Three causative genes for BOR syndrome have been reported thus far: EYA1, SIX1...

Lessons from the outcomes of children with hearing loss study

31 October 2018 | | Audiology - Paediatric
The Outcomes of Children with Hearing Loss (OCHL) study of 300 children with hearing loss has targeted several factors that are under the control of audiologists and parents. Drs McCreery and Walker discuss how these ‘lessons learned’ can lead to...

Paediatric obstructive sleep apnoea

6 January 2023 | | ENT, Paediatric ENT
As tonsillectomy rates for recurrent sore throats have declined, there has been increasing recognition of the importance of OSA in children. Not always diagnosed early – or in some cases at all – and with continuing debate as to how...

In conversation with John Carlisle: the silent hero shaping medical publication integrity

4 March 2024 | | ENT
Have you ever been curious as to what your anaesthetist is getting up to on their laptop during long cases? Me neither, but I always generally assumed they were trading Bitcoin, solving the Riemann hypothesis and buffing their Tinder profile....

In conversation with John Carlisle: the silent hero shaping medical publication integrity

4 March 2024 | | ENT
Have you ever been curious as to what your anaesthetist is getting up to on their laptop during long cases? Me neither, but I always generally assumed they were trading Bitcoin, solving the Riemann hypothesis and buffing their Tinder profile....

The ‘umbrella furling’ deflation technique for cuffed tracheostomy tube - a useful tip for an easier tracheostomy insertion

27 June 2022 | | ENT, Head and Neck, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
In this article, the authors describe a quick and effective technique to assist with the maximal deflation of a tracheostomy tube cuff prior to insertion, thus making the process easier with less chance of damage to the cuff and a...

The costs of applying to ENT specialty training

22 February 2021 | | ENT
Training doctors is costly. In the UK, medical school costs an estimated £230,000 made up of £163,000 in government grants and £65,000 in student loans [1]. Repayment of the student loan begins once the graduate earns above a certain threshold,...

Meeting myself coming back

4 May 2023 | | ENT
Sometimes, it can seem like trainers and trainees are separate entities, inhabiting separate worlds, in two separate spheres of experience. However, trainees become trainers, and there is always a period where the trainer has only just stopped being the trainee....

How to tell if a bone anchored hearing device is working?

1 May 2014 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Auditory Implants, Neurotology, Otology
Bone anchored hearing aids are becoming increasingly more commonplace with more than 120,000 users worldwide. These devices are based on the principle of direct bone conduction, where sound is transmitted directly through the skull via a titanium implant to the...