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EROC 2025 travel scholarships and video competition

27 March 2024
Submissions are now open for two awards being run in conjunction with the 14th Emirates Otorhinolaryngology Audiology Swallowing and Communication Disorders Congress (EROC 2025).

Measuring the pitch and loudness of tinnitus

24 May 2017 | | ENTA - Tinnitus, ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Matching the characteristics of tinnitus Many researchers and clinicians have explored the subjective nature of tinnitus by asking people with tinnitus to adjust a sound so that it matches their tinnitus in some way. This can be useful both for...
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Logan Turner’s Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Ear – Head and Neck Surgery, 12th Edition

4 March 2025 |
Nine years since the previous edition, the 12th edition of Logan Turner sees Quentin Gardiner join Musheer Hussain as a Dundonian editorial double-act. The book has an inextricably East Coast of Scotland history; Arthur Logan Turner was the first ENT...
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Swallowing outcomes following partial laryngectomy: objective assessment and pre-operative predictive factors

1 November 2014 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery, ENTA - Otology
Partial laryngectomy constitutes one of the treatments for early stage glottic carcinoma (i.e. T1N0 and T2N0) in specialised centres. Over the years, several partial laryngectomy and reconstruction techniques have been described in the literature. The choice of technique depends on...

Mentorship and its role in surgical training

1 March 2019 | | ENTA - ENT
Is there a principle which could help address multiple challenges in surgical training? One which has potential to improve recruitment and retention of staff to our specialty, quality of patient care and surgeon morale? Harry Spiers, an Academic Foundation Doctor...
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Can surgery make you a better driver?

5 January 2022 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice | Cognitive function, Driving, Driving simulation, Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), Surgery
Obstructive sleep apnoea is a condition that can have far reaching health, economic and safety implications for the individual inflicted with the condition, as well as those in their immediate and wider surroundings. Having the freedom to drive taken away...
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Bad splits

1 November 2016 | | age, bad split, bilateral sagittal split osteotomy, intraoperative complications, mandibular fracture, orthognathic surgery, risk factors, sagittal ramus osteotomy, surgical technique, third molar
This is a meta-analysis of reported risk factors of a ‘bad split’ in a sagittal split mandibular osteotomy. They identified 30 observational articles and therefore acknowledged it is based on low quality studies. It is compounded by the definition of...
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Three-dimensional endoscopy for sinonasal procedures: is it really better?

1 March 2019 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus | Endoscopy, endoscopic training, three-dimensional
In this interesting study the authors looked at the efficacy of two-dimensional (2D) versus 3D high-definition endoscopes in novice users, not those already trained in 2D. Ninety-two medical students used 2D and 3D endoscopes to complete two validated tasks and...

Introduction to speech testing

4 May 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy
Let’s get back to basics: Dr Schoepflin introduces the concepts behind speech testing for hearing care professionals. While pure tone threshold testing is considered the ‘gold standard’ for assessing auditory sensitivity, the results of pure tone testing provide only limited...

What happens to donated hearing aids?

1 September 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy, ENTA - Tinnitus
According to the WHO, only 3% of people in developing countries who require hearing aids have one. Over the years many people, organisations and companies have donated old hearing aids to charities. Bhavisha Parmar, an audiologist who volunteered with Sound...

This surgeon learned the power of Twitter / Twitter: an ENT surgeon’s perspective

1 September 2015 | | ENTA - General
This surgeon learned the power of Twitter I was once Australia’s most followed surgeon on Twitter, according to my dear wife. She was probably right, as always. I had more than 3,700 followers on my account, but very few people...

The role of the maxillo-facial surgeon in the management of skull base malignancy

1 June 2014 | | ENTA - Maxillofacial Surgery, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery
Whilst ablative surgery remains the principal treatment option for head and neck malignancy, the skull base is the last frontier. The complex anatomy, supreme functionality of the brain, and varied pathology provokes many a detailed discussion in the multidisciplinary team...