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Audiovestibular findings in children with enlarged vestibular aqueduct

1 November 2015 | | Audiology - Paediatric, Vestibular Disorders
Enlarged vestibular aqueduct is reported to affect up to 15% of the paediatric population with sensorineural hearing loss. Devin McCaslin and Bridget Smith provide an up-to-date overview of the mechanisms and clinical symptoms underlying the condition and share some of...

Can we get some satisfaction (in aphasia therapy)?

3 March 2021 | | Speech and Language Therapy
Patient satisfaction is associated with improved health outcomes, yet using surveys to collate information on satisfaction is limited by the types of questions asked. Satisfaction remains a broad concept but asking respondents more open questions allows service users to define...

International Newsround eNewsletter May 2021

17 May 2021
Welcome to our May 2021 International eNewsround. Please get in touch if you would like to submit a report.
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Hemilaryngopharyngeal Spasm (HeLPS)

3 March 2021 | | Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice | Cough, Glossopharyngeal neuralgia, Hemi-laryngopharyngeal spasm, Laryngospasm, Microvascular decompression, Neurovascular compression
The authors report an unusual case of hemilaryngopharyngeal spasm (HeLPS) with glossopharyngeal neuralgia with otalgia in a middle-aged female patient. Her symptoms included left-sided sharp, electric sensation like pain radiating from her left ear to the left side of her...

Selective upper airway stimulation

1 May 2016 | | Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is one of the most common diseases in industrialised countries and is characterised by an intermittent obstruction of the upper airway during sleep. The standard treatment for OSA is continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy, which...

Matthew Clark: full-time otologist, spare-time sculptor

1 July 2018 | | ENT
Drilling a temporal bone may seem like torture to some trainee surgeons. To others it is but a stepping stone to something altogether grander... I took Art A-level a year early so as not to interfere with the ‘important subjects’,...

The use of social media to drive practice growth

8 January 2024 | | Audiology - Adult
Cliff Olson is the most successful user of social media in the hearing care industry as of the date of this publication. His videos have been viewed worldwide, and he has more YouTube followers than all the major hearing aid...

The history of person-centred hearing care

3 November 2023 | | Audiology - Adult
In the World Report on Hearing, launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 3 March 2021, the use of person-centred care is highly recommended. In this article, we learn about the history of person-centred healthcare and hearing care. But...

New Audiometer Keyboard from Interacoustics

22 February 2023 | Research & Development
Interacoustics is happy to release a new, dedicated keyboard for audiometry that fits side by side with your regular PC keyboard.

AOT President, Manish George, highlights the many issues COVID-19 has created for trainees

14 July 2020
It is clear that COVID-19 has created multiple wide-reaching issues for trainees as a whole. Whilst an earlier preoccupation of mine has been to...

The Veterans Hearing Fund

1 July 2016 | | Audiology - Adult
Dawn Bramham introduces us to the newly launched Veterans Hearing Fund (VHF). This organisation aims to improve the lives of military personnel with hearing loss by providing access to technologies, services and bespoke rehabilitation that are not routinely available via...