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Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery: Clinical reference guide - Fourth Edition

1 September 2016 | | ENTA-ENT
This textbook, well known to North American residents, is now in its fourth edition. It has been extensively revised to include more up-to-date topics, such as robotic surgery, sleep medicine and paediatric otolaryngology. Authors Raza Pasha and Justin Golab aim...

GN ReSound LiNX

15 June 2017 | ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
As a general rule, it is not the objective of the Tech Reviews column to review hearing aids. However, when a product emerges that transcends the hearing aid industry, generating the type of media ‘buzz’ that hearing aids don’t typically...

Pre-hospital care

1 July 2014 | | ENTA-ENT
For those of us that work within the acute hospital system, the sound of the trauma pager going off warning of an incoming casualty with as yet unknown injuries is often the sound of uncertainty and anxiety. When it becomes...

The role of the respiratory physician in sleep medicine

1 May 2015 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
ENT surgeons may feel that they are the first point of referral for the majority of patients with snoring and possible obstructive sleep apnoea, but in reality a significant number of patients with sleep-disordered breathing (of any cause) are seen...

Professor Heinz Stammberger’s pioneering contribution and legacy in the field of FESS

1 May 2019 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
It is no exaggeration to say that functional endoscopic sinus surgery would not exist in its current form without Heinz Stammberger. Prof Valerie Lund traces the development of this relatively recent surgical technique. In the early 1980s, a happy combination...

What do animal models tell us about tinnitus and hyperacusis?

23 May 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Tinnitus
Do animals have tinnitus? The obvious question to ask is: do animals have tinnitus? It is known that tinnitus is a conscious percept and as such affected by attention and not audible during sleep. For it to be demonstrated that...

Canine hearing testing and the role of otoacoustic emission tests

1 May 2018 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
Otoacoustic emissions testing is an accepted method of hearing testing in humans, but have you ever considered the situation in dogs? This article discusses deafness and hearing testing in dogs and the current role of OAE testing in this species....

Current perspectives of tinnitus and its management

10 March 2023 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Tinnitus
Whilst there are various therapeutic options for ameliorating the impact of tinnitus, there is no current approved treatment for attempting to eradicate, or even for reducing, the loudness of tinnitus.

A funny thing happened on the way to a conference – and other stories

4 March 2024 | | ENTA-ENT
This series of stories is dedicated to those of you with whom some of these moments were shared (or endured) and, above all, to my amazing and long-suffering husband, David Howard. Most of you know him as an exceptional head...

Hotels.com

4 July 2024 | | ENTA-ENT
This series of stories is dedicated to those of you with whom some of these moments were shared (or endured) and, above all, to my amazing and long-suffering husband, David Howard. Most of you know him as an exceptional head...

Monstrous craws and horrid butchery: a concise history of thyroid surgery

3 September 2024 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery
Prior to the foundation of our speciality, thyroid surgery had a dubious reputation and universally dismal outcomes. Jenny Walton casts a critical eye over this dark chapter. Diseases of the thyroid gland have been referenced in historic texts for well...

HPV and ENT; should we vaccinate boys?

1 January 2017 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA-Paediatrics
David Black and Charlie Hall reiterate Vin Paleri’s pleas for a common sense evidence-based approach by those who allocate healthcare resources to the now urgent issue of HPV-related disease. They discuss the merits of different vaccines and the need for...