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Perioperative management of the head and neck cancer patient

1 March 2019 | | Head and Neck | Antibiotic prophylaxis, Anticoagulation, Head and neck cancer, Malnutrition, Perioperative recovery, Supplementation
The perioperative care of patients with head and neck cancer is complex and requires significant preoperative planning and patient education. The issues include analgesia, antibiotics, stoma and wound care, general and chest physiotherapy, thromboprophylaxis and nutrition. This article provides a...

Is a chest x-ray necessary in making urgent referrals for suspected head and neck cancer?

1 October 2018 | | Head and Neck, Rhinology / Sinus | Head And Neck, Mass Chest X-Ray, Neoplasms, Practice Guideline
The article presents an audit on urgent referrals for suspected head and neck cancer in 2144 patients. Only 8.6% of cases proved positive for head and neck cancer. The Scottish Referral Guidelines were adhered only in 55.1% of cases. Interestingly,...

Attitudes towards leisure noise

1 September 2018 | | Noise-induced hearing problems, attitudes, earplugs, leisure noise, tinnitus
Noise is a very common reason for hearing loss. The question is whether young adults realise the danger of developing a noise related hearing loss. The aim of this study was to evaluate the attitude towards leisure noise and noise...

Lack of early vocabulary growth in bilateral cochlear implant children

1 May 2018 | | bilateral cochlear implant, composition of vocabulary, predictors, size of vocabulary
Studies indicate that children with unilateral implantation may have delayed vocabulary development for long periods of time even after implantation. This Finnish study attempted to find out whether bilateral cochlear implantation was associated with earlier vocabulary development. The authors analysed...

Does trainee participation in cochlear implant surgery affect operative times?

1 January 2017 | | Cochlear implantation, Operative times, Otolaryngology education
The role of surgical education is a very sensitive issue in spite of the obvious need and the obligation of doctors to pass on their knowledge and experience to the next generation. This study is very interesting as it assesses...

Factors affecting compliance of follow-up of patients with chronic otitis media

1 September 2016 | | Health Facility Administration, Hospital, Otitis Media, Outpatient Clinics
Patients with retraction pockets and small cholesteatomas need good surveillance as well as those surgically treated for cholesteatomas. This is particularly important in closed techniques where a second look or diffusion weighted MRI can pick up any recurrence or residual...

Smell and mental health

1 November 2015 |
This national survey from Korea asked questions about many aspects of health and one of these was about sense of smell. The prevalence of olfactory problems was 5% in the adult group surveyed, and other studies would suggest that this...

Music and hearing aids - the current state of affairs

25 August 2017 | | Audiology - Adult
‘Speech sounds great, but music isn’t right’ is a common complaint from hearing aid users across the globe. In this article, Marshall Chasin, one of the most published audiologists on the subject of music and hearing, outlines why patients with...

Development and review of a blended service in response to COVID-19

7 January 2021 | | Audiology - Adult, COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has required healthcare services globally to show both resilience and ingenuity in redesigning services to meet the ever-changing needs of our patients. We hear about the redevelopment of clinical pathways within an hearing implant service, and the...

In conversation with Professor Charles Liberman

1 January 2019 | | Audiology - Adult, Tinnitus
Just before I left Cambridge to work with the Hearing Sciences group in Nottingham, I spent a very happy hour alone in the company of Professor Charles Liberman, the Director of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories based at the Massachusetts Eye and...

In conversation with De Wet Swanepoel, President of the International Society of Audiology

1 March 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric
Gareth Smith caught up with the new President of the International Society of Audiology, De Wet Swanepoel, about the aims of the society, the upcoming World Congress of Audiology and the current state of hearing healthcare in Africa. De Wet...

International Federation of Head and Neck Oncologic Societies (IFHNOS): its programmes and impact on head and neck cancer worldwide

1 March 2016 | | ENT, Head and Neck
In the first article of this edition, we introduce IFHNOS, which has created a major impact on the landscape of head and neck cancer treatment and education over the past quarter of a century by offering a global platform amongst...