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The fatal illness of Frederick the Noble

3 March 2021 | | ENT
Sir Morell Mackenzie is acknowledged as the ‘Father of British Otolaryngology’. He was the leading throat specialist of his time and one of the founders of the Journal of Laryngology and Otology in 1887. He studied in Paris, Vienna and...
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Liver function assessment in glandular fever

6 January 2023 | | Head and Neck | Epstein-Barr virus, abdomen ultrasound, glandular fever, infectious mononucleosis, liver function
This month’s Editors’ Choice is a systematic review of the role of liver assessment in patients with glandular fever. Admission of patients with sore throat constitutes a significant burden of acute work for paediatric and adult ENT services as well...
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Identifying congenital CMV: the screening debate

4 May 2021 | | Auditory Implants, Paediatric ENT | Congenital cytomegalovirus, Hearing loss, Screening
Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) is a significant global public health burden and is the biggest non-genetic cause of childhood hearing loss, as well as being an important cause of neurodevelopmental delay. Despite a study concluding that there was not enough evidence...
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Modifying two-week wait protocol for suspected head and neck cancer patients during COVID-19

3 March 2021 | | Head and Neck | Head And Neck Neoplasms, Squamous Cell Carcinoma Of Head And Neck, COVID-19, Thyroid Neoplasms, Thyroid Nodule, Diagnostic Imaging, Histopathology
As healthcare workers, we are committed to ensuring that our patients continue to receive the optimum care that we are set up to deliver. However, the last year has shown that we need to be mindful of balancing this with...
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Can we predict risk of adverse events preoperatively in patients undergoing head and neck cancer surgery?

27 February 2020 | | Head and Neck
Ed’s Choice reviews a paper aiming to create a reliable index to predict postoperative outcomes in head and neck cancer patients. This interesting study identifies variables that may assist in risk assessing prospective surgical candidates. There have been a few...
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Antibiotic prophylaxis in otolaryngologic surgery. Less is better!

7 January 2020 | | Head and Neck
Jan/Feb 2020 Editor’s Choice is a review of antibiotic prophylaxis in ENT and OMF surgery. It is not the first systematic review and meta-analysis published in the last two years. If anyone else has been offered a “potentially career-altering opportunity”...

Is there increased cardiovascular risk with macrolide antibiotics?

1 November 2019 | | Audiology - Adult
This month’s Ed’s Choice delightfully reviews the potential cardiovascular consequences of long-term macrolide use in the treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis. This used to be one of my ‘go-to’ topics of conversation at home after a bad day at work, although...
Otolaryngology - Head and Neck surgery journal cover

Outcomes of temporal bone-resurfacing for pulsatile tinnitus associated with vascular wall anomalies

1 September 2019 | | Otology, Rhinology / Sinus | carotid artery, dehiscence, diverticulum, hydroxyapatite, hypotympanic approach, jugular bulb, pulsatile tinnitus, resurfacing, sigmoid sinus, surgical technique, systematic review, vascular wall anomaly
This month’s Ed’s choice is an interesting systematic review into the management of pulsatile tinnitus. There are impressive results from resurfacing of symptomatic anatomical abnormalities of the temporal bone and I suspect that referrals for further imaging and otology clinic...

Independent lab tests and rates hearing aids

5 February 2023
HearAdvisor is a new audio testing lab designed to understand how the performance of hearing aids differs.

OBE for Mike Smith

5 February 2023
Congratulations to Mike Smith, a contributor to ENT & Audiology News, for being awarded an OBE, one of the UK’s most prestigious honours.

Ida Institute scales down

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

ENT in this issue... Paediatric Otorhinolaryngology (NovDec18)

7 November 2018
But for the clumsiness of increasing the number of letters in the acronym, ‘ENT’ would have grown to include recognition of the subspecialties of skull base surgery, facial plastic surgery and paediatric ENT surgery, of which management of ENT problems in children has seen perhaps the greatest development.