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Professor Heinz Stammberger’s pioneering contribution and legacy in the field of FESS
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...Anaesthesia under fire
1 November 2019
| Kate Prior
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ENTA - ENT
Kate Prior is an anaesthetist who has, quite literally, been there, done that. In this article she manages to use words on a page to bring to life some of the conditions and challenges she faced as a member of...
Getting It Right First Time in ENT
14 January 2020
| Andrew Marshall
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ENTA - ENT
Andrew Marshall, a Consultant ENT Surgeon at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, visited 126 departments across England before publishing his recent ENT surgery national report for the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme. Here, he explains how identifying unwarranted...
Awake transnasal laryngeal and pharyngeal biopsy in the unsedated patient
27 February 2020
| Richard Brendan Townsley, Jennifer Anderson, Constantina Paulo Yiannakis
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ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
In an attempt to improve the efficiency and flow of patients through a busy ENT clinic, technology now allows the ENT surgeon to consider biopsies in the outpatient setting on a more regular and controlled basis. This can avoid the...
Malignant lesions and reconstruction of the pinna
External ear reconstruction can be challenging. Baskaran Ranganathan and Amr Abdelhamid describe how careful assessment, planning and surgery following the subunit principles and reconstructive ladder will ultimately lead to good aesthetic outcomes with restored form and function. The external ear,...BAA to host World Congress of Audiology in 2028
13 April 2022
The British Academy of Audiology is delighted to have won its bid to host the International Society of Audiology’s World Congress in 2028 (WCA2028). The 38th Congress will be hosted in Edinburgh, 23-26 April 2028.
Introduction to Aural Rehabilitation Serving Children and Adults with Hearing Loss - Third Edition
1 July 2021
| Jay Jindal
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ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
As the name indicates, this book deals with the bread and butter of audiologists or at least what should be our bread and butter. We work with changing people in changing environments, therefore, along with an acute understanding of technology,...
Can amplification preserve auditory function?
5 November 2021
| Lucy Dalton
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ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, Neurotology, Otology
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auditory deprivation effect, monaural hearing aid, presbycusis, word recognition score
Hearing loss is a noted modifiable risk factor for dementia, and is also associated with depression, decreased quality of life and isolation. Hearing aids are the main intervention for presbycusis and a 2017 Cochrane Review showed that they have a...
On the influence of sex on tinnitus burden and its phenotypes
One important aspect of the new paradigm in tinnitus research is to question basic assumptions. What associations does the sex of a person have with their experience of and reaction to tinnitus? Chris Cederroth raises the question and tells us...Otodynamics' OTOPORTcompletes a mission on the International Space Station
30 October 2021
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Research & Development
For the last few years, the International Space Station has been home to an Otodynamics’ Otoport Advance handheld clinical OAE instrument.
Canal plugging for intractable Meniere’s disease
30 April 2020
| Victor Osei-Lah
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Neurotology, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
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Meniere’s disease, Semicircular canal plugging, Vertigo
In this single centre retrospective study, the authors applied semicircular canal plugging, well known as a treatment for refractory BPPV, to intractable unilateral Meniere’s disease (MD) that had failed to respond to medical treatment with betahistine and hydrochlorothiazide. However, in...
Is surgery in obese children with obstructive sleep apnoea effective?
1 November 2019
| Richard (Wei Chern) Gan
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ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Rhinoplasty
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adenotonsillectomy, apnea, lingual tonsillectomy, meta-analysis, midline posterior glossectomy, obesity, outcomes, supraglottoplasty, surgery, uvulopalatopharyngoplasty
The authors present the results of their literature review and meta-analysis of studies examining adenotonsillectomy, uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP), supraglottoplasty, tongue base surgery or a combination in obese children with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). The one study investigating effects of UPPP was...
