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Darn it! It’s going to take longer to get good at stapes surgery!
1 May 2016
| Anand Kasbekar
Traditionally, it has been said the learning curve for a particular operation lies between 20 and 30 cases. In stapedotomy, a surgeon is deemed successful and perhaps competent if closure of the air-bone gap (ABG) is reached to within 10dB...
Person-centred care, enhancing audiology student understanding across the globe
4 July 2024
| Charlotte Rogers
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ENTA-Audiology - Adult
Over 200 students registered for a multinational virtual event facilitated by the Ida Institute. The aim was to determine levels of student understanding and approaches to person-centred care (PCC), alongside the opportunity to evaluate the benefits of this approach to...
ENT bodies stand up for Ukraine
7 March 2022
Leading ENT and audiology organisations have made a stand against Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Hearing aids 2019: today’s technology
High-end or basic hearing aids: does the technology level make a difference? Catherine Palmer shares the current evidence base and suggests where hearing healthcare professionals can make the most impact. The most common complaint from individuals with mild-to-moderately severe hearing...The business of audiology: unbundling
8 January 2024
| Alicia DD Spoor
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ENTA-Audiology - Adult
Many professions, such as law, accounting, engineering and some areas of healthcare charge hourly rates in a fee-for-service model. Administratively, this can be a challenge to track hours, bill clients/patients, and collect payment, but this does lend toward greater transparency...
Hearing loss and cognition: something to think about
3 March 2021
| Alexandria L Irace, Alexander Chern, Justin S Golub
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ENTA-Audiology - Adult
Irace, Chern and Golub propose causal and non-causal mechanisms for the links between hearing loss and dementia, concluding with a discussion of several proactive measures available to help preserve neurocognitive health in older adults with hearing loss. What is age-related...
The GP and the ear
1 September 2019
| Badr Eldin Mostafa
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Otology
General practitioners are the first members of the medical community to deal with ear problems. In this survey, 11 GPs examined 124 patients using a regular otoscope and a video-otoscope and reported their findings in a 10-item table. The same...
Consulting with patients and providers: what should the future of aphasia therapy look like?
1 March 2017
| Anna Volkmer
This article provides a description of what healthcare for people living with aphasia should and may look like in 10 years’ time. The authors have consulted with a group of people with aphasia and the lead of an aphasia advocacy...
A Treatise on Otosclerosis and its Treatment
Rinze Tange and I were co-authors for the otosclerosis chapters of both the seventh and eighth editions of Scott-Brown’s Otorhinolaryngology which he references in his book. It was particularly exciting therefore to receive this beautiful 363-page treatise on all that...Understanding new and emerging categories of hearing devices
1 November 2019
| Brent Edwards
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ENTA-Audiology - Adult
The hearing device landscape is rapidly changing, and what should be given, to whom, and why, are questions that many hearing healthcare professionals are asking. Brent Edwards discusses these questions and how consumer characteristics may influence their choice. In 2016,...
How to manage the cheek in gender affirming surgery
3 November 2022
| Sangeeta Maini
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Maxillofacial Surgery
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Alloplastic cheek implants, Augmentation, Cheek, Fat grafting, Gender-affirming facial surgery
This publication discusses cheek augmentation surgery related to gender-affirming facial surgery. The publication describes the difference between the common male cheek anatomy and the desired ideal feminine appearance and how to achieve it. In the author’s experience, gender-affirming surgery patients...
Balloons – more complicated than first thought?
1 March 2019
| Joanna Stephens
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ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA-Skull Base Surgery
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balloon sinuplasty, cerebrospinal fluid leak, chronic rhinosinusitis, endoscopic sinus surgery, functional endoscopic sinus surgery, pneumocephalus, sinus surgery, sinusitis
This study describes the complications seen after balloon sinuplasty (BSP) - a commonly performed procedure (particularly in the USA where it is often performed as an office procedure) versus traditional functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS). The data source was a...
