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Hearing protection and hearing loss

1 May 2015 | | Hearing loss, hearing protection, noise, speech recognition
This study examined the interaction of hearing protection for noise reduction and hearing loss with speech recognition performance. Forty five subjects with four hearing loss profiles were fitted with two different level dependent hearing protectors (circumaural and inserts) in two...
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Does use of pectoralis muscle myocutaneous flap (PMMCF) reduce postoperative pharyngocutaneous fistula complication after salvage laryngectomy?

7 July 2020 | | Radiotherapy, chemoradiotherapy, pectoralis major myocutaneous flap, pharyngeal interposition graft, pharyngocutaneous fistula, salvage total laryngectomy
Salvage laryngectomy for recurrent laryngeal carcinoma following failed radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy is associated with high postoperative complication rate. The primary aim of this paper was to assess whether use of muscle myocutaneous flap (PMMCF) as an interposition graft reduces the...

Role of ultrasonography-guided fine-needle aspiration in management of the neck after chemoradiotherapy

1 November 2016 |
Primary chemoradiotherapy (CRT) is a well-established treatment for locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). However, not every patient has a complete response to this treatment modality, necessitating eventual salvage neck dissection. Some patients with persistent adenopathy following...

Adjuvant intratympanic steroid therapy in sudden sensorineural hearing loss

1 September 2015 |
Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) means abrupt hearing loss by 30dB affecting three consecutive frequencies within 72 hours. This is treated by high tapering doses of systemic steroids, the role of which is controversial and fraught with possible complications in...

AUDIOLOGY - In conversation with Yury Konstantinovich Yanov

1 July 2016 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-ENT
Focussing on trauma and the military, it is fitting to include this interview with ENT Professor and Russian Army General Yury Konstantinovich Yanov. Professor Gerard O’Donoghue had the honour of putting some questions to this eminent figure in Russian ENT,...

Practising surgery in a war zone: an interview with Dr Volodymyr Melnyk

8 December 2022 |
It is now nine months since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine commenced in late February 2022, with Putin announcing a “special military operation” to “denazify and demilitarise” Ukraine. The rest of the world, however, saw it for what it...

Patient initiated follow-up in head and neck cancer

3 May 2024 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck
Is it time for a change in the way we follow up head and neck cancer patients after treatment? Paul Nankivell and Hisham Mehanna explain the rationale for the PETNECK2 trial. After completion of curative intent treatment, clinical follow-up currently...

Military noise induced hearing loss and the Lost Voices report: the evolution of earshot

1 July 2016 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
Brigadier Robin Garnett gives us a snapshot of the 2014 Royal British Legion report on hearing problems of Service personnel and veterans. The difficulties in assessing and managing hearing loss are reiterated in this article, with an introduction to how...

A look at Black representation in ENT

4 September 2023 | | ENTA-ENT
The importance of diversity in ENT has recently been highlighted by ENT UK’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan. In this article, Oloruntobi Rotimi discusses the importance of Black role models for those starting out in the specialty....

Thoughts on war: von Clausewitz revisited

1 July 2014 | | ENTA-ENT
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall...

The big ask – maintaining the entrepreneurial spirit in academic facial plastic surgery in the USA

1 March 2014 | | ENTA-ENT
en·tre·pre·neur, noun a person who organises and operates a business and who has qualities of leadership, initiative and innovation. In the United States, facial plastic surgery (FPS) services are divided among private and academic practices. The vast majority of academic...

Sushruta and Indian rhinoplasty

3 March 2021 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
Vijay Pothula explains rhinoplasty’s roots in ancient Indian Ayurvedic medicine, and how it was introduced to the Western world. In 1794 The Gentleman’s Magazine published a surgical operation which was long established in India but unknown in Europe [1]. A...