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A multidisciplinary approach to the management of the adult balance - dizzy patient

30 April 2020 | | ENTA-Vestibular Disorders
Richard Gans and Kimberly Rutherford, renowned experts from The American Institute of Balance, give their team’s overview of the stages involved in reaching ‘diagnosis based strategies’. For the dizzy patient, this focuses on patient-centred clinical pathways for individualised therapy with...

Random-pattern skin flaps: part 2 - rhomboid and bilobed flaps

5 January 2022 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck
In the second of our series on local skin flaps (see Part 1 here, Part 3 here and Part 4 here), the authors describe more techniques and examples of various skin flaps that trainees should find very interesting. Rhomboid flap...
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Pharmacologic treatment options for tinnitus

7 January 2021 | | ENTA-Tinnitus | Anxiety, Clinical trials, Depression, Neurotransmitters, Pharmacology, Psychoacoustic, Tinnitus
This article summarises potential medications that could be used to treat tinnitus and the evidence behind their use. Effective medications to eliminate tinnitus remain elusive but treatment could be divided into two broad categories: treatment to reduce perception of tinnitus...

BAPO Annual Meeting 2024

19 September 2024 -20 September 2024 | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Otology, Paediatric ENT, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA-Head & Neck
Chong Yi Kang, Paediatric ENT Fellow, Evelina London Children's Hospitaland Kate Hamlett, ST6 ENT Registrar North West Deanery The 2024 BAPO Annual Meeting saw the best turnout of paediatric ENT professionals from across the globe, reflecting the extensive scope and...

Perspectives on audiology training and education in Canada and New Zealand

1 November 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
In this Trainee Matters we look at audiology training in two different locations from around the world, Canada and New Zealand. Marshall Chasin gives us an overview of the education system in Canada, while Amy Arrowsmith explains the history of...

True Cut – a dramatic biopsy from the world of surgery

1 July 2018 | | ENTA-ENT
True Cut is a stage play that asks: “What happens when things go wrong in healthcare?” It brings the hidden world of the operating theatre onto the theatre stage. ENT surgeon, David Alderson, talks about how the play came about....

Extended benefits of cochlear implantation in the elderly

1 September 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
With the challenges presented by an ageing population, Louise Craddock and Charlie Huins describe the benefits of cochlear implants for deaf elderly adults that go beyond improvement of hearing and speech understanding. Introduction People aged over 65 make up 7.4%...

Migration and training: a British-Nigerian surgeon’s perspective

1 March 2018 | | ENTA-ENT
Less than 4% of doctors on the UK’s medical register describe their ethnicity as African or part African, yet there are myriad driving forces behind the migration of medical trainees from Africa to the UK and other developed countries. Ekpemi...

What is Transnasal Humidified Rapid-Insufflation Ventilatory Exchange (THRIVE)?

1 May 2018 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
THRIVE is a physiological mechanism for oxygenating and ventilating patients who are under general anaesthesia and who have diminished or absent respiratory effort [1]. Classical ventilation requires bulk flow of gases into and out of the lungs driven by chest...

Congenital CMV: investigations and management in the audiology setting

1 July 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Vestibular Disorders
Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) is the only cause of congenital sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) for which there is a medical treatment available to prevent further hearing loss. Dr Simone Walter discusses cCMV infection, cCMV-related hearing loss, and how to facilitate their...

Audiology Papers of the Year 2015-16

1 July 2016 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
In this short review we have asked Melanie, Carolina, Josephine and Cherilee to consider the best article they have read in the last 12 months and provide us with a short review. All contributors have managed to succinctly highlight the...

Mindfulness meditation: how personal experience of managing severe pain contributes to understanding tinnitus management

6 January 2023 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Tinnitus
In this interesting article the author describes the potential benefit of mindfulness in the management of tinnitus, using a case report to illustrate this.This may well be an additional direction we can suggest for our patients. Mindfulness is a word...