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The use of 3D videos to improve patient engagement with compensatory swallowing strategies

4 September 2025 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Patients with dysphagia are often asked to use compensatory techniques or manoeuvres to facilitate safe swallowing. For example, they may be taught to do a supraglottic swallow to minimise aspiration or a specific postural adjustment to support bolus flow. These...

Aided cortical assessment: uses in a paediatric hearing implant centre

3 November 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
When can an aided cortical assessment help decision making in a child’s hearing journey? In this article, the author demonstrates the application using an enlightening case study approach. A device, be it a conventional hearing aid or hearing implant, ideally,...

What can be done to encourage training doctors to pursue a career in paediatric ENT?

2 May 2025 | | ENTA - Paediatrics
Paediatric ENT is often considered the ‘Cinderella’ subspeciality within otolaryngology. There are efforts in the UK and overseas to redress the balance. Paediatric ENT is a specialised field that addresses the unique needs of children with otolaryngological disorders. Despite its...

Laryngeal transplantation: is it a thing?

7 January 2025 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Few organs could be said to be more complex than the larynx when it comes to transplantation. Martin Birchall looks at past challenges, current issues and future prospects. I am not clear exactly why I chose to spend a life...

Audiology Assistant Apprenticeship – employer and apprentice perspectives

4 May 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
To celebrate National Apprenticeship week in February 2021, Keiran Joseph interviewed Caroline Jackson, Principal Audiologist at Children and Young Peoples Audiology Centre St Thomas Hospital, and Audiology Assistant Apprentice, Rachael Allan, about the value of the apprenticeship scheme in their...

The preventative audiologist

5 July 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Rob Shepheard has been championing the role of ‘the preventative audiologist’ for many years. In this article, he explores how that can be achieved.

Hearing loss toolkit updated

30 May 2024
The British Hearing Instrument Manufacturers Association (BIHIMA) and the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) have updated the hearing loss toolkit they developed in 2020/21.

Adolescence, drug use and body image

1 January 2017 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Paediatrics
Teenagers are notoriously conscious of how they are perceived by others. Dr Saraiva and colleagues explain how this can lead to problems with substance abuse for both boys and girls, and discuss the different substances they may encounter. Adolescence is...

Paediatric obstructive sleep apnoea

6 January 2023 | | ENTA - Paediatrics
As tonsillectomy rates for recurrent sore throats have declined, there has been increasing recognition of the importance of OSA in children. Not always diagnosed early – or in some cases at all – and with continuing debate as to how...

In conversation with Reza Rahbar

6 November 2024 | | ENTA - Paediatrics
Reza Rahbar is professor of otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School and associate otolaryngologist-in-chief at Boston Children’s Hospital. He initiated and leads IPOG, the International Pediatric Otolaryngology Group. I met up with him to ask more about it. Reza Rahbar DMD,...

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,...

In conversation with Chrysa Spyridakou, Robert Nash, Emma Clement, Nish Mehta and Anne GM Schilder

2 September 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
Jaclyn Tan interviews members of the London-based multidisciplinary hearing team, about their insights to auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder, and their vision for the future management of this challenging range of conditions. Auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD) describes a wide range...