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Videofluoroscopic swallowing studies: balancing risks and benefits
3 July 2023
| Roganie Govender
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AMD, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
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Deglutition Disorders, Dysphagia, Frame Rate, Pulse Rate, Radiation Dose, Videofluoroscopic Swallowing Studies
Videofluoroscopic swallow studies (VFSS) are an important part of the diagnostic toolkit and arguably the current gold-standard for assessing swallow biomechanics and diagnosing dysphagia. However, the procedure does involve exposure to radiation, and any clinician requesting this should be able...
Swallow assessment: is clinical judgement or objective measurement more reliable?
Swallowing difficulties are life threatening and are the most common referral reason to speech and language therapists working with the adult population. Video fluoroscopic examination is a common instrumental tool used to assist in the assessment of the risk of...Case studies – transformational benefits of using connecting hearing aids
While hearing aids can provide great benefits there remain some challenging situations for people with hearing loss. These include listening in background noise, groups, using the telephone and listening to TV / music. Hearing aids with integrated wireless functionality allow...
Sound localisation after bilateral cochlear implantation
1 October 2018
| Kerri Millward
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ENTA - Auditory Implants, Otology
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Bilateral, Child, Cochlear implants, Hearing aids, Hearing threshold levels, Localization, Simultaneous, Spatial hearing
Limited information is known about the localisation skills of paediatric cochlear implant patients who were good hearing aid users before their hearing deteriorated. As localisation is a skill often associated with good natural hearing, there is a worry that implants...
The future: brain imaging for aphasia rehabilitation
1 July 2018
| Anna Volkmer
Technology offers our patients vast potential, yet the research literature in this area is often technical and difficult to translate to the day-to-day clinical setting. This article aims to review structural and functional imaging methods and discuss how they are...
Advances in diagnosis and management of allergic rhinitis
1 May 2018
| Wai Sum Cho
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Allergen immunotherapy, Allergic rhinitis, Aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease, Immunoglobulin E
This article reviews advances in the diagnosis and management of allergic rhinitis. Recent advances in the diagnosis of allergic rhinitis include testing of local immunoglobulin E (IgE), urinary test to diagnose aspirin hypersensitivity and optical rhinometry to assess degree of...
Role of copper ions in drinking water in the pathogenesis of oral submucous fibrosis: the missing link in the aetiopathology?
1 November 2014
| Sampath Chandra Prasad
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Maxillofacial Surgery
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Copper, Home drinking water, Oral submucous fibrosis, Pathogenesis
Often a breakthrough link in the understanding of the aetiopathogenesis of a hitherto common pathology that has been evading the medical community may not come from the hi-tech labs of the developed world, but from the intelligent investigations from a...
Wireless accessories for hearing aid users: putting the ‘soul’ back into hearing – a case study
1 March 2015
| Darren Cordon
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ENTA - Audiology - Adult
The following case study reports on the experiences of a hearing impaired National Health Service (NHS) patient who was given Bluetooth accessories as part of a study into their benefits when used with hearing aids [1]. The name of the...
What does functional neuroimaging tell us about tinnitus?
24 May 2017
| Deborah Hall (Prof)
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ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Imaging, ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Tinnitus
One of the most common causes of tinnitus is noise exposure, be that either cumulative day-to-day exposure over a lifetime or experience of acute noise trauma such as a loud concert or shooting incident. Observational data indicate that up to...
Quality quantitative tests of taste & smell
21 June 2021
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COVID-19, Research & Development
Sensonics’ range of products provides the medical, scientific and industrial communities with reliable smell and taste tests for assessing chemosensory function.
Prof ED Kitcher
1 September 2019
| Johan Fagan (Prof)
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ENTA - ENT
Much has been said of the paucity of ENT Services in Africa [1]. Whilst Ghana has always been at the forefront of healthcare in Sub Saharan Africa, its ENT and allied services were somewhat suboptimal in the 1980s. This article,...
Bringing ear care and hearing services to the hardest to reach: the potential of primary healthcare workers
4 May 2021
| James O’Donovan, Doreen Nakku, Diego Santana
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ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Otology
Can workers from the local community plug the workforce gap in providing ear and hearing care? Bringing ear and hearing care services closer to the community remains a key component of reducing the burden of ear and hearing conditions across...
