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Developing principles of swallow rehabilitation using novel animal modelling

3 September 2024 | | ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Never let it be said that we don’t cover a wide range of topics. Camilla Dawson tells us about the crossover between swallowing in seals and in humans. Rehabilitation of swallow is complex, informed by anatomical and physiological systems and...

From Hippocrates to COVID-19: sniffing out the disease

1 July 2021 | | ENTA-Covid-19, ENTA-ENT
The ancient Greek physician, Hippocrates, used the ‘art of smell’ to diagnose diseases around 400BC. He also formulated miasmatic theory, which posited that disease is caused by bad smells. Bad air was strongly believed by many physicians to be the...

Audiology in this issue...Current Topics in Tinnitus

2 November 2020 |
Prof David Baguley, PhD, MBA,Professor of Hearing Sciences, NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, University of Nottingham; Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham; Nottingham Audiology Services, Nottingham University Hospitals Trust, Nottingham, UK. Until really quite recently, the...

Matthew Yung and Chris Raine Travelling Scholarship to Iowa

5 June 2024 -14 June 2024
I was the grateful recipient of the 2020 Matthew Yung and Chris Raine scholarship, although due to the Covid pandemic and its aftermath I could not take up the opportunity until June this year. I chose to visit the otology and neurotology department at Iowa University Hospitals, in particular to meet with Bruce Gantz, an early adopter of bony obliteration of the mastoid, himself inspired by the work of Ulf Mercke of Sweden who developed this technique in the 1980s.

BACO – the early years

1 March 2015 | | ENTA-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...

IEM – no noise is good noise!

1 September 2016 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
Whether you’re an active musician or a music-loving commuter, noise exposure via music is a very real concern. Musician, sound engineer and Puretone Sales Manager, Deke Frickey, looks at where the dangers lie and the best ways to overcome them....

EEG as a measure of neuroplasticity in children

6 January 2023 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
Measuring changes in neural activity can teach us a lot about hearing loss and the effect of gained functional hearing. In this article, the authors describe how electroencephalography (EEG) is being used to effectively measure such changes in children with...

The ear-brain connection in cochlear implant users: learning to listen again

26 June 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Neurotology
While the cochlear implant (CI) has been a tremendous success in restoring hearing to deaf individuals, the implantation outcome still varies across CI users [1]. Some demographic factors, such as duration of deafness, and peripheral factors, such as electrode placement,...

Facial pain: the differential diagnosis in an ENT clinic

1 July 2016 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
The patient presenting with facial pain can be a heartsink. Fear not – Bhaskar Ram and Sangeeta Maini are here with a succinct overview of the common non-sinogenic causes of facial pain and headache, and how to manage them. Facial...

Wellbeing – a Scandinavian perspective

3 May 2022 | | ENTA-ENT
The Swedish concept of ‘fika’ is a state of mind and can help to promote wellbeing in teams. But what is it, and how can it help? It is an interesting thought that being well is not the same as...

Lies, damned lies and relative risk reduction

4 September 2023 | | ENTA-ENT
Chris Potter has a thing or two to say about the use of statistics and, in doing so, he takes us to a Friday night steak house that is prone to airway disasters and on a short tour of his...

Taking life by the throat

5 July 2022 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Patients suffering with problems with their voice, airway and/or swallowing can find their symptoms immensely distressing, and their care places a huge burden on healthcare systems. We hear from a world-leading laryngologist on current and future directions. Field of interest...