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Time to endoscopic sinus surgery and outcomes

1 January 2016 |
A well written prospective study, which demonstrates that patients who require endoscopic sinus surgery, should be operated on without long delay since this achieves better and more sustained outcomes. There were 1493 patients undergoing primary nasal surgery who had completed...

Practical training courses for otolaryngology trainees

1 March 2017 | | ENT
In this extended Trainee Matters, it’s a pleasure to present a trio of excellent articles with a theme of practical training courses for otolaryngology trainees. Miss Rachel Edmiston, Professor Nirmal Kumar and colleagues have written a valuable guide to setting...

Use of Elasticated Hooks in Open Rhinoplasty

1 March 2014 | | Rhinoplasty
Introduction Good exposure is an essential requisite in open rhinoplasty and often requires appropriate assistance to aid surgery. Frequently, surgeons lack adequate assistance in theatre and often have to depend on the scrub nurse for retraction. A self-retaining retractor is...

An interview about ENT – ‘edutainment’ with Short Sharp Scratch Productions

1 January 2015 | | ENT
Short Sharp Scratch Productions came to the attention of Rosaleen Shine who forwarded details of their YouTube videos. Omar Hafeez-Bore and Nicola Lowe created a series of informative and educational videos of basic ENT skills during their ENT placement as...

Annelies Kusters: exploring deaf communities globally

3 May 2024 | | Audiology - Adult
Pioneering deaf scholar, Annelies Kusters, shares insights from her global research journey spanning two decades in deaf communities worldwide. You’ve travelled the world extensively through your work – what’s surprised you most about the different communities that you’ve studied? My...

Annelies Kusters: exploring deaf communities globally

3 May 2024 | | Audiology - Adult
Pioneering deaf scholar, Annelies Kusters, shares insights from her global research journey spanning two decades in deaf communities worldwide. You’ve travelled the world extensively through your work – what’s surprised you most about the different communities that you’ve studied? My...

COVID-19 in China: the experience of an ENT team

30 April 2020 | | ENT, COVID-19
In January, we first heard of COVID-19. As we currently do battle with it on our own shores, colleagues in China share their story with us as life there slowly and cautiously begins to return to normal and the country...

Supporting music listening through cochlear implant services – experience from a UK adult clinic on supporting musical engagement

3 September 2021 | | ENT, Otology, Auditory Implants
The perception and enjoyment of music is central to many people’s lives. Harriet Crook (herself a cochlear implant recipient) tells us about important work in this area for people using hearing aids and CIs. There is now a wealth of...

The Medical Art Society

1 July 2018 | | ENT
Historian, sculptor and general polymath Neil Weir neatly demonstrates the strong links between our speciality and the creative arts, along with his colleague from the Medical Art Society, Jeanette Cayley. At a summer meeting of the British Medical Association in...

BACO – the early years

1 March 2015 | | ENT
The origins of the British Academic Conference in Otolaryngology (BACO) are indelibly intertwined in the mists of time with the foundation of the British Association of Otolaryngology (BAO). For further information on the latter I can only refer the interested...

ENT registrar national selection: how can we advise aspiring candidates?

1 May 2014 | | ENT
With the aim of creating fair selection into the few available training numbers, ENT was one of the first surgical specialties to move to a national selection process for selecting new registrars in England. Since 2013 the selection process has...

Audiology in this issue...The Weird World of Science

1 January 2020 |
Gareth Smith, Consultant Clinical Scientist (Audiology), Southend University Hospital, UK. E: Gareth.Smith@southend.nhs.uk Twitter: @garethlsmith In this edition, I’ve taken rather an editor’s privilege in exploring outside of our mainstays in audiology and widened the field to consider acoustics more widely...