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Vestibular screening in occupational medicine

1 May 2015 |
Occupational vestibular disorders carry a high medico legal and economic burden. The occupational medicine physician must rely on rapid, non-invasive, economical and reproducible screening tests. This article compares the simplified caloric test of Veits (CTV) with the skull vibration-induced nystagmus...

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy and flap reconstruction: does it help?

1 May 2015 | | free flap reconstruction, hyperbaric oxygen, osteoradionecrosis, radiation complications, surgical complications
This is a multicentresite retrospective review from four clinics in the USA on patients who received radical debridement and free flap reconstruction for osteoradionecrosis (ORN) between 1 Jan 1995 and 30 June 2011. Patients were stratified divided based on having...

Back to basics: nasendoscopy beats CT, again!

1 May 2015 | | computed tomography, delivery of healthcare, deviated nasal septum, health policy, insurance, health, nasal surgical procedures, practice guidelines, septoplasty
There are few otolaryngologists (or patients) who have not been confronted with a computed tomography scan referring to a deviated septum. In a very similar way to the accidental findings of sinus mucosal thickening, the clinician is left in a...

Not so innocent, after all: a meta-analysis of the effects of intranasal corticosteroids on growth

1 May 2015 | | allergic rhinitis, androstadienes, beclomethasone, budesonide, fluticasone, glucocorticoid, inhaled glucocorticoids, nasal inhaler, nasal spray, steroids
The use of intranasal corticosteroids has revolutionised the management of allergic rhinitis and rhinosinusitis and there is now significant evidence of their safety. The problem with side-effects is that clinical studies are designed to demonstrate efficacy, but are underpowered to...

Hearing protection and hearing loss

1 May 2015 | | Hearing loss, hearing protection, noise, speech recognition
This study examined the interaction of hearing protection for noise reduction and hearing loss with speech recognition performance. Forty five subjects with four hearing loss profiles were fitted with two different level dependent hearing protectors (circumaural and inserts) in two...

Super Surgeon Vin Paleri

10 July 2024
Prof Vin Paleri, one of ENT & Audiology News’ star contributors, has featured in a recent episode of Channel 4’s Super Surgeons.

Hearing protectors and speech perception

1 May 2015 | | Hearing protection devices, learning effect, speech intelligibility, speech intelligibility impact level, speech reception threshold
This study tested 31 subjects using hearing protectors by maintaining a constant intensity level for the speech signal while varying background noise levels. The goal was to use this test to detect speech perceptual abilities under different hearing protectors –...

Relationship between ART and language development

1 May 2015 | | Assisted Oocyte Activation, Assisted Reproduction Technology, ICSI, children, language development, outcome
Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART) and especially more invasive techniques of ART may be associated with an increase in neurodevelopmental problems including language delay. Some studies have reported slightly worse perinatal outcomes of IVF babies compared to naturally conceived babies. The...

Specific language impairment in bilingual vs monolingual children

1 May 2015 | | bilingual, executive function, language-minority, poverty, specific language impairment
Research has focused mainly on the specific language impairment (SLI) in monolingual children. This article focuses attention on the SLI in bilingual children. The study was conducted with bilingual children from Luxembourg and monolingual children from Portugal who all had...

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

1 September 2015 | | ENT
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...

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

1 March 2016 | | ENT, Head and 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....

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...