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Adult speech testing in the UK

4 May 2023 | | Audiology - Adult, Speech and Language Therapy
What do hearing healthcare providers see as the benefits and barriers to delivering speech testing? This article explores the latest research. Why speech testing? Speech tests have been used across ENT and audiology practice to measure an individual’s speech recognition...

Feeling like a fraud — imposter syndrome: what it is and what to do about it

3 November 2023 | | Audiology - Adult
Have you ever been plagued by feelings of incompetence despite evidence to the contrary, then this article is for you. Dr Dunay Schmulian provides insight into imposter syndrome and what to do about it. Excerpt 1 Senior Audiologist: That was...

School-Based Audiology

1 March 2014 | | Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric
I was interested to read this book which aims to cover the basics required for school based audiologists (or ‘educational audiologists’ as they are also known) working in the USA, as I had limited knowledge of this role. The role...

Which bit of our brains do we need to recognise fear, disgust and happiness?

1 September 2018 |
Recognising other people’s emotions is a useful life skill for human interaction in both social and vocational situations. Yet there remains significant debate about which areas of the brain are required to enable us to read and understand these facial...

First UK hypoglossal nerve stimulation implant in the treatment for moderate to severe OSA

25 April 2023 | | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Obstructive sleep apnoea has been treated in many different ways over the years. We hear from Yakubu Karagama about one of the latest surgical developments. Introduction Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is by far the most common sleep disorder, affecting all...

Pre-clinical development of magnetic delivery of therapy to middle and inner ears

1 March 2014 | | ENT, Otology
Why are we developing this technology? A key problem in drug delivery is getting the therapy to the right place in the body, which is especially challenging for targets that are small, deep and are protected or surrounded by anatomical...

In conversation with Bill Gibson, Richard Ramsden and Shakeel Saeed

1 September 2017 | | Auditory Implants, Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Adult, ENT, Otology, Paediatric ENT
The surgical aspect of cochlear implantation is both a joy and a challenge – which is why we love it! In this article, Simon Freeman draws on the wisdom of his three previous mentors, sharing pearls from some of the...

Communicating with patients in 
‘Plain English’

1 January 2014 | | ENT
Physicians have long been accused of using unnecessarily complicated language and impenetrable jargon as a way of maintaining their status, prestige and high earnings-potential, bamboozling the public and excluding them from meaningful discussion as part of what George Bernard Shaw...

Specialist teams deliver world-class trauma care

1 July 2014 | | ENT
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust runs the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, which is a designated Major Trauma Centre. The Trust holds the contract to treat all UK injured military personnel evacuated from combat zones overseas. More than 1200 of...

Reducing hierarchy for individuals and teams across ENT

3 May 2022 | | ENT
Alexander Pope said that “to err is human”, but medical errors can have serious consequences. How can better communication minimise the risk of them occurring in the first place? Allowing all members of the surgical team to feel empowered to...

Intratympanic steroids in Ménière's disease: what’s the evidence?

2 September 2022 | | ENT, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Adult, Otology
The days of drastic surgery for Ménière's disease are long gone. We know that intratympanic injections can deliver high doses of medication to the inner ear with minimal discomfort and minimal risk. But how do we choose from the myriad...

Semi implantable bone conduction devices: challenges and developments

6 June 2017 | | Auditory Implants, Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Adult, ENT, Otology, Paediatric ENT
Bone conduction mechanisms and history of bone conduction aids Bone conduction hearing devices work by stimulating hair cells via the bone conduction hearing pathways. These pathways are less well understood than the air conduction pathways, but recent research has shown...