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In conversation with Helen and De Wet in Paris: cochlear implants in the year 2074

7 January 2025 | | ENTA - Auditory Implants
The World Congress of Audiology (WCA), held in Paris, France, in September 2024, provided a fantastic opportunity to reconnect with colleagues from around the globe. I took the chance to sit outside in the sunshine with De Wet Swanepoel from...

Hunting for the zorse - hybrid learning in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic

3 July 2023 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Covid-19
Emma Watts, a West Midlands ENT Registrar and Digital Fellow, gives a witty and concise recollection of ENT training during COVID, and predicts how hybrid learning may be here to stay. *A zorse is the offspring of a zebra stallion...

MedAudPro: a united front for audiology

19 September 2022
For the past three years, the Network of Medical Audiology Professionals has been bringing together ENT providers in the USA. Co-founder and President, Patricia Ramos talks about her ambitions for the organisation.

What’s new about the 5th Congress of the CEORL-HNS?

1 January 2019 | | ENTA - ENT
The CEORL-HNS congress will feature novel ideas for sessions, including debates, ‘basic ENT’ and ‘nightmare’ sessions! The two leading figures of the meeting tell us about the evolution of the congress and future directions. There is something new about the...

The artificial eardrum: how an eggshell membrane fed a German ENT family

3 September 2024 | | ENTA - ENT
In the pre-antibiotic era, purulent otitis media often resulted in a permanent eardrum perforation with hearing loss. In addition to pig or fish bladders, eggshell membranes and cigarette paper were used as eardrum prostheses. I have vivid personal boyhood memories...

Minimally invasive techniques for benign salivary gland obstruction

13 June 2017 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Salivary gland obstruction is a common condition – it is recognised by a complaint of intermittent meal-time swelling of the affected salivary gland and can be accompanied by recurrent infections. Imaging can identify the nature and location of an obstruction...

Chronic rhinosinusitis management: back to the future?

1 July 2016 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Immunology is a dim and distant medical school memory to many ENT surgeons, but the increasingly complex immunology of chronic rhinosinusitis is fascinating (honestly!). Medical management options in CRS no longer just involves saline and steroids, and we need to...

Aetiology, investigation and acute management of sudden sensorineural hearing loss

1 September 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
The cause of a single sided sensorineural hearing loss has a wide variety of aetiologies. This review, by Edwin Halliday, looks specifically at the differential diagnostic causes of a sudden sensorineural hearing loss, the relevant investigations and the management should...

Rotational chair testing: “To rotate, or not to rotate, that is the real question”

1 November 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
Passive whole body rotation tests are widely considered to be the ‘gold standard’ for the identification of bilateral peripheral vestibular disorders (bPVD), but also have a part to play in identifying unilateral disorders (uPVD). In this article Paul Radomskij discusses...

KTP laser in the office

1 March 2016 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
KTP laser surgery offers a new way of selectively targeting microvasculature within laryngeal lesions and leaving normal surrounding tissues like epithelium and lamina propria intact – and thus preserving physiological phonation. This kind of selective photoangiolysis can be performed in...

Use of Elasticated Hooks in Open Rhinoplasty

1 March 2014 | | ENTA - Rhinoplasty
Introduction Good exposure is an essential requisite in open rhinoplasty and often requires appropriate assistance to aid surgery. Frequently, surgeons lack adequate assistance in theatre and often have to depend on the scrub nurse for retraction. A self-retaining retractor is...

Robotic head and neck surgery: current state of the art and future innovations

1 March 2016 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck
Technology and innovation has provided modern head and neck surgeons with successive generations of robotic surgical systems, fibre-optic lasers, and novel tools which have ushered in a new era of minimally invasive surgery for tumours of the pharynx and larynx....