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Cochlear implantation in the developing world: perspectives from the Indian subcontinent

1 September 2017 | Raghu Nandhan Sampath Kumar, Mohan Kameswaran | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric, Auditory Implants, ENT, Otology

Cochlear implants are an expensive technology, yet profound hearing loss is far from a developed-world phenomenon. On the contrary, incidences of both congenital and acquired hearing losses are high in the developing world. This article explains how an initiative in...

Prof Tanon of the Côte d’Ivoire and Stephanie Unterrieder of MED-EL: challenges and successes of a public-private partnership

5 July 2022 | Cheka R Spencer, Marie-Josée Tanon-Anoh, Stephanie Unterrieder | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, ENT

The Côte d’Ivoire (RCI) is a large country on the West African coast. It has recently launched a pioneering neonatal hearing screening programme. Dr Cheka Spencer caught up with Prof Marie-Josée Tanon to discuss this and other recent developments which...

Foretelling: post-stroke recovery of dysphagia is predicted by cognition

4 May 2023 | Anna Volkmer | Speech and Language Therapy

Around two thirds of people in the acute phase of stroke recovery will experience dysphagia. Up to six months following a stroke this may be present in 13-18% of cases. The degree of cognitive impairment seems to be associated with...

Selective otolith dysfunctions objectively verified

1 May 2015 | Fiona Barker | Vestibular, cervical vestibular-evoked myogenic potential, ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potential, otolith, utricular

Three cases of patients with acute onset vertigo are presented here. The presenting symptoms are described for each case along with the results of vestibular and audiologic examination. This paper focuses on the results of vHIT in the plane of...

Patient experience of necrotising otitis externa

2 March 2022 | Eloise Owen | ENT, Otology

Necrotising otitis externa is increasing in incidence in the UK and becoming a rising burden to patients and health services. Despite a growing body of literature on this condition, we know very little about patient experience of necrotising otitis externa....

Development of a new negative-pressure ventilatory support device: Exovent

3 September 2021 | David John Howard (Prof), Vik Veer | ENT, Otology

The pandemic has driven innovation in ways that we have not seen for many decades. Intensive care medicine and ENT have been at the forefront of these advances, and our good friends David Howard (never one to put his feet...

BAA Awards 2020

8 December 2020

In a year with a whole new set of challenges for everyone, the BAA Award nominations show the continued difference people make to both patients' and colleagues’ lives. The BAA 2020 Award winners are as follows: BAA Student of the...

Focus on ENT trainees with additional qualifications

1 March 2016 | Amanda Casey, Emma Stapleton | ENT

In this Trainee Matters, we focus on ENT trainees with additional qualifications. Eight accomplished trainees tell Emma Stapleton how their achievements have benefitted them both professionally and personally. Their professional achievements have included a National Training Number in ENT, presentations,...

Mind the gap – developing a sustainable pipeline for hearing therapeutics

2 September 2022 | David McAlpine (Prof), Denise R Goldman, Anne GM Schilder (Prof) | Audiology - Adult, Otology

In this article, the authors describe three key challenges faced in developing hearing therapeutics. Collaboration between companies, sectors and disciplines will be key to finding solutions. The unmet need for therapies for hearing loss grows apace, with prevalence rising across...

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