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OBITUARY: Bernard Colman (1924-2020)

15 September 2020 | | ENT, Otology
Bernard Colman at his leaving party at the old Radcliffe infirmary in 1989, which was his retirement year. Born above a corner shop in Wolverhampton on 17 October 1924, Bernard Colman entered Wolverhampton Grammar School in 1933 but left early...

Innovative Digital Operating Theatres from KARL STORZ

14 March 2024 | Research & Development
A major project with the Hospital Alemán in Buenos Aires, Argentina, shows that KARL STORZ's complete solutions for operating theaters, known as OR1™, enjoy a great reputation worldwide.

In conversation: Russell Tyler

6 October 2022
Alex Griffiths-Brown talks to a star of classical music about playing with a cochlear implant.
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Is flexible nasendoscopy really aerosol generating?

7 January 2021 | | Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice | Flexible laryngoscopy, aerosol-generating procedures, droplet quantification, optical particle sizer, rigid laryngoscopy
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the safety of office-based laryngoscopy has been a source of considerable concern, speculation and debate. Flexible nasendoscopy is a key diagnostic tool in the assessment of the ENT patient, however most healthcare providers consider this to...

Audiologists’ perspectives on their ability to address hearing, social and emotional adult patient needs

4 March 2024 | | Audiology - Adult | Counselling, adjustment, confidence, patient-centred care, rehabilitation
Authors suggest there is little evidence that hearing technology addresses patients’ emotional concerns related to their lived experience of hearing and communication difficulty. The study explores the notion of audiologic counselling and discusses the role of audiologists in supporting the...

How effective is vestibular rehabilitation in bilateral vestibular failure?

1 May 2016 | | Vestibular rehabilitation, bilateral vestibular hypofunction, outcomes
In patients with bilateral vestibular hypofunction (BVH), the outcome of vestibular rehabilitation is mixed. The aim of the study was to identify factors associated with outcome of vestibular rehabilitation (VR) in patients with BVH. A retrospective case notes review identified...

Innovations in remote/teleaudiology patient care

3 November 2022 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic
Audiometry remains the gold standard in hearing evaluations. Changes in the delivery of audiometry remain a key challenge in providing a telehealth approach to hearing care. The team at Lyon University Hospital validated an innovative approach to solving this challenge,...

Grasping opportunities and taking chances: an accidental journey to the perfect destination

3 July 2023 | | Audiology - Adult
Here, Jonathan Parsons tells us more about his journey from clinical audiologist to setting up a social enterprise in the National Health Service. My route to Exeter and to a social enterprise has had several twists and turns and not...

Clinical leadership and management: the ‘Darzi’ experience

1 September 2014 | | ENT
The Fellowship in Clinical Leadership programme, more commonly known as the ‘Darzi Fellowship,’ commenced in 2009. It was designed to provide junior doctors at the registrar level with postgraduate training in clinical leadership and change management in order to develop...

10 steps to improving transition to adult services

1 January 2017 | | Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Adult, ENT, Paediatric ENT
Children and parents like the reassurance that staying under the care of the team who looked after them from birth gives, but as the child approaches adulthood he / she must come under the care of a new team. This...

By the people, for the people: a multidisciplinary facial nerve clinic with a difference

30 April 2020 | | ENT
Facial nerve palsy is regularly seen in ENT clinics. Underlying diagnoses are excluded, and the patient is often then discharged to ‘see how it goes’, with or without an ophthalmology referral. Here, Catherine Meller describes how she and her team...

Three is not a crowd! Involving family members in audiology appointments

1 July 2015 | | Audiology - Adult
Family members currently have minimal involvement in the appointment. Image by Caitlin Grenness. Hearing loss in older adults not only affects the patients themselves, but also their family members. This article outlines the findings of recent research into how family...