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What has NAIROS taught us about septoplasty?

30 October 2024 | | ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA-Rhinoplasty
Septoplasty is a commonly performed procedure worldwide for nasal obstruction associated with a deviated nasal septum. In the UK, with long waiting lists for septoplasty, there is a large and unexplained variation in the incidence of this procedure between individual...

Virtual educational outreach in the COVID-19 era

7 January 2021 | | ENTA-Covid-19, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck
Existing surgical outreach programmes to developing countries have been severely curtailed by the COVID-19 pandemic. This has impacted on opportunities for otolaryngologists from the USA and from other developed countries to contribute to education and training of otolaryngologists in developing...

A psychophysical perspective on single-sided deafness and its treatment by cochlear implants

1 September 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Auditory Implants
Bob Carlyon gives us a psychophysical perspective on the hearing benefits that can and cannot be achieved for patients with single-sided deafness with a cochlear implant, and discusses some of the challenges in maximising the effectiveness of the treatment. He...

Genetics and the newborn hearing screen: the future is now

1 July 2021 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
Eliot Shearer shares the progress being made with newborn hearing screening 60 years on from where it started, and future directions for identifying hearing loss using physiologic, genetic and cCMV screening. Newborn screening had its birth in the early 1960s,...

2020 Lancet Commission on dementia: a call to action for integrated hearing healthcare

3 March 2021 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
Dr Georgiou’s summary of the 2020 update to the 2017 Lancet Commission underscores the importance of medical and hearing healthcare professionals working together to tackle the modifiable risk factors that affect individuals throughout their lives, to help delay or even...

The basis of the bargain: outcomes not inputs

1 January 2018 | | ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Adult
There are international drivers focusing our attention on measuring outcomes; Anthony Hogan looks at the data to see how we are currently measuring up. Introduction A global paradigm change is impacting on the provision of disability services. At its heart,...

In conversation with Professor Gerry O’Donoghue, Master of BACO 2020

7 January 2020 | | ENTA-ENT
We sent Priya Achar and Tawakir Kamani to interview Professor Gerry O’Donoghue, Master of BACO 2020, who has lots to tell us about the modern, collaborative, global, environmental and family friendly ethos of the event. First of all, why BACO...

In conversation with Professor Gerry O’Donoghue, Master of BACO 2020

7 January 2020 | | ENTA-ENT
We sent Priya Achar and Tawakir Kamani to interview Professor Gerry O’Donoghue, Master of BACO 2020, who has lots to tell us about the modern, collaborative, global, environmental and family friendly ethos of the event. First of all, why BACO...

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

1 July 2015 | | ENTA-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...

Enhancing and extending hearing care using Ida Telecare

1 March 2019 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
Tele-audiology has been on our radar for a long while, and evidence shows that its application in clinical practice is beneficial to both patients and clinicians. Cherilee Rutherford discusses the benefits and gives an overview of the freely-available tools developed...

Use of a diode laser for the removal of a frontal sinus osteoma

1 November 2015 | | ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
In this How I Do It, Professor Sergei Karpischenko introduces a gentle method of reduction of mobilised frontal sinus osteoma which has been successfully used in five patients in his university clinic using a diode laser in contact mode. Osteoma...

Transnasal oesophagoscopy (TNO) and balloon dilatation under a local anaesthesia

1 March 2017 | | ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Many of us are becoming more and more familiar with the use of transnasal oesophagoscopy. It has a number of well-described uses in the outpatient setting and is well tolerated by our patients. Yakubu Karagama describes taking this technique a...