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Machine learning and the future of otolaryngology

9 September 2020 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Imaging
If you are over 30 years of age, you have witnessed a technology revolution that has grossly affected how we live: computers have come from being an oddity to an everyday feature in our households and places of work; the...

Running a post-COVID smell clinic

1 July 2021 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA-Covid-19
Over the past year, much of our effort as a speciality has been directed towards crisis management and keeping services afloat. Our practice has changed in untold ways, but unprecedented numbers of patients with smell disorders will increasingly require our...

#BecauseIhearIlive – an international message from Smiling Crocodile

26 June 2020 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
There are 34 million children worldwide afflicted by disabling hearing loss, 60% of whom are suffering from hearing loss due to preventable causes [1]. This article is an account of the Smiling Crocodile Charity, founded in 2009 by Dagmar Herrmannová,...

In conversation with Professor Seiji Kakehata

7 April 2021 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
Endoscopic ear surgery has been a rapidly evolving area of clinical practice in recent years. Our Global Ambassador in the Far East/ASEAN Region, Professor Tatsuya Yamasoba talks to one of the main exponents of this technique, and about the next...

Why and what should hearing care professionals know about cognitive impairment and dementia

27 June 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Neurotology
Good reasons to care about cognitive impairment and dementia in audiology If asking people what they fear most when getting to old age, it is cognitive decline that is named most often. This comes with the expectation of limitations in...

BACO: The Master’s role

1 July 2015 | | ENTA-ENT
Ian Mackay is this year’s BACO Master, with Valerie Lund taking over for the next meeting. As the senior overseer of the conference, the role of Master is a crucial one, and Ian tells us how he has gone about...

Why hearing above 8 kHz matters more than you think?

6 November 2024 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
This review explores the significance of extended high-frequency hearing loss (above 8 kHz) and why it may be worth doing clinically more frequently. There are many conditions that may hide underneath a normal audiogram, and one of the easiest to...

In conversation with Shusheng Gong and Shahed Quraishi on ENT Masterclass<sup>®</sup> China

1 March 2017 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck
ENT Masterclass® China was a landmark event that brought an international training resource to Beijing. Profs Shusheng Gong and Shahed Quraishi discuss the organisation of this event, the training pathway in China, and the setup of a typical ENT academic...

Translating research – transforming lives: the BACO 2020 academic programme

7 January 2020 | | ENTA-ENT
The main attraction of any conference or event is, of course, the academic programme of lectures, workshops and education. Hisham Mehanna, BACO 2020 Academic Chair, and Paul Nankivell, Academic Vice Chair, give us an overview of what to expected in...

TWJ Fellowship – Toronto 2015: Endoscopic Ear Surgery

1 May 2016 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
The Thomas Wickham Jones (TWJ) Foundation is a charitable trust with the aim of helping patients with deafness overcome their disability. Striving to achieve this goal they provide educational grants to otolaryngologists and other related audiological professionals working within the...

Endoscopic stapes surgery

14 April 2021 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
Traditionally middle ear surgery, including stapes surgery, has been performed using the operating microscope. In this article the authors describe their experience with endoscopic middle surgery and share some of its advantages. Trans-canal endoscopic ear surgery (TEES) is now a...

BACO International 2018: Key Speakers

1 January 2018 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Genetics, ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA-Neurotology, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Skull Base Surgery
Prof Aldo C Stamm, MD, MSc, PhD Anatomy of the paranasal sinuses and skull base, and breaking the paradigms in severe spontaneous epistaxis It is a true honour to participate as an invited faculty member at the upcoming BACO International...