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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...

In conversation with Shahed Quraishi

7 February 2024 | | ENTA - ENT
Professor Shahed Quraishi OBE. The ENT Masterclass® has been one of the most successful endeavours in ORL education and training in modern times. It has now been around for two decades. To mark the occasion and celebrate a coming of...

Be sober to stay on your feet

1 November 2014 | | ENTA - Vestibular Disorders | Ethanol, adaptation, balance, postural control, vision
Readers would either have had a personal experience or observed the inelegant gait of the inebriated. Re-aligning the body during postural perturbations involves changes in head position, shoulders, and hip, knee and ankle joints. The main hypothesis of this study...
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Persistent postural-perceptual dizziness (PPPD), psychosomatic or not? The debate continues

3 November 2023 | | ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
PPPD continues to provoke debate since the diagnostic criteria emerged in 2017. This review covers two commentaries because they are best considered together: the first one, by HK and BS-U, concluded that PPPD is a psychosomatic disorder (in fact, ‘a...

Virtual vestibular rehabilitation (VR) is as effective as in-person VR

2 May 2025 | | ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
The effectiveness of vestibular rehabilitation (VR) for patients with several vestibular disorders is well established. Access for in-person clinic-based VR is however patchy and limited. To widen access, offering VR via virtual platforms is increasingly being adopted. The authors conducted...

Extent of central neck dissection in the patients with thyroid carcinoma

1 November 2014 | | ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery
The first level of lymphatic spread in well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma is to the central compartment of the neck, namely, the paratracheal, prelaryngeal and pretracheal lymph nodes. Central neck dissection may carry an increased morbidity, namely, hypoparathyroidism and recurrent laryngeal nerve...

7th Annual Congress of the Bulgarian Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology

21 February 2025 -23 February 2025
In February, nearly three hundred delegates gathered in the snow-covered city of Burgas on the Black Sea coast for the 7th annual congress of the Bulgarian Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology

Patient-centred audiological rehabilitation: facilitating and hindering factors for implementation

29 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Introduction Patient-centred care in the health sector is a worldwide concern [1, 2]. Patient-centred rehabilitation is characterised by availability, appropriateness, preference, and timelines [3]. A consensus report by the Institute of Medicine [4] defines a patient-centred approach as ‘providing care...

Ida Institute tackles clinician burn-out

6 May 2022
Founded in 2007, Denmark’s Ida Institute is dedicated to the health of people with hearing loss. Its new four-part course, however, is aimed at another group: the medical professionals whose jobs can compromise their own health.

Intensive Programme on Audiology across Borders

20 April 2023 -26 April 2023
Ruth Kerkaert and Emeline Mestdag, students, Artevelde University of Applied Sciences. The University of Applied Sciences in Ghent has a long history of organising an Intensive Programme on Audiology across Borders – this year was the 23rd edition. This intensive...

BSHENT Annual Meeting 2023

30 November 2023 | ENTA - ENT
Katherine Conroy, MA (Cantab) MB BChir FRCS (ORL-HNS), Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK. The annual meeting of the British Society for the History of ENT was held at the Royal Society of Medicine’s historic Toynbee Mackenzie room. Dozens of attendees, from...

Reducing hierarchy for individuals and teams across ENT

3 May 2022 | | ENTA - 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...