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Make food thy medicine!

10 March 2023 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus | Diet, Diet score, Head and neck cancer, Hearing loss, Mediterranean diet, Plant-based
This is a useful paper emphasising how diet affects health and various ENT conditions. We have known for many years the power of food as medicine. We also know that what we eat can affect our bodies in multiple ways...

The paediatric dilemma of one ear in and one ear out of NICE criteria

1 May 2019 | | Auditory Implants | Auditory perception, Criteria, Guidelines, Indications, Outcomes, Paediatric CI, Quality of life, Speech and language development, Unilateral CI
The auditory implant team in Manchester have implanted a cohort of children where audiological thresholds meet the NICE guidance for cochlear implantation (CI) in one ear only, and the other falls into moderate, severe or sloping loss. These children are...

DVT prophylaxis in cranial procedures

1 March 2019 | | Neurotology, Skull Base Surgery | DVT, DVT prophylaxis, PE
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a result of disturbed balances in blood flow patterns, blood clotting factors promoting coagulation and vessel wall endothelial injury. The subsequent disruption of coagulation and fibrinolysis mechanisms lead to venous clot formation and propagation. The...

Voice change after total thyroidectomy with intact laryngeal nerves – a common but temporary problem

1 March 2018 |
It has been reported that up to 87% of patients have a degree of voice dysfunction after thyroidectomy, even when the laryngeal nerves are preserved. Postoperative inflammation, laryngeal oedema due to vascular congestion, direct damage to the cricothyroid muscles and...

Third-party disability in cochlear implant users

8 January 2024 | | Audiology - Adult, Auditory Implants | Hearing loss, cochlear implant, significant others, third party disability
Hearing loss causes changes for those experiencing it and the people who share in their everyday lives, often referred to as third party disability or caregiver burden. This study emphasises the notion that this phenomenon can be considered a disability,...

Audiologists’ perspectives on their ability to address hearing, social and emotional adult patient needs

4 March 2024 | | Audiology - Adult | Counselling, adjustment, confidence, patient-centred care, rehabilitation
Authors suggest there is little evidence that hearing technology addresses patients’ emotional concerns related to their lived experience of hearing and communication difficulty. The study explores the notion of audiologic counselling and discusses the role of audiologists in supporting the...

Inequitable access to cochlear implantation across the UK

3 May 2024 | | Audiology - Adult, Auditory Implants, Otology
Referral rates and uptake of cochlear implantation in the global adult population are low. Five audiology centres across England and Wales retrospectively explored data over a six-month period in late 2019, post implementation of new National Institute for Health and...

Clinical assessment in OSA

1 January 2016 | | airway evaluation, airway classification, Müller maneuver, pharyngometry
This paper divides the assessment up into anatomical (nasal and oropharyngeal), endoscopic and imaging. It points out the salient features to look out for in OSA patients with regards the nasal valve and also oropharyngeal anatomy, with tonsil hypertrophy grading...

The barber-surgeon of Avebury

1 November 2019 | | ENT
On a stroll through Neolithic Britain, Seville oranges on a quay in Dundee, marmalade and 14th century coins, Chris Potter unravels the story of a man (a surgeon?) seemingly crushed by a falling 13-tonne stone. But things are not quite...

Ida Institute scales down

6 February 2023
The Ida Institute has been unable to secure future funding and is significantly scaling back its activities.

COSM 2019 (Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meetings)

1 May 2019 -5 May 2019
Continue on for the full reports from the individual societies at COSM by Sujana Chandrasekhar, Keith G Trimble, Greg Randolph and Maura Cosetti. COSMReport by Sujana Chandrasekhar, ENT & Allergy Associates, New York, NY, USA There are two major US...

The role of metrics in studies of hearing and cognition

26 June 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Neurotology
Introduction When perceiving sounds in real-world listening environments, older adults encounter several sources of degradation that can interfere with the perceptual process (Figure 1). Target signals (i.e. the sounds that a listener wants to focus on) have specific acoustic characteristics...