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Middle Ear and Mastoid Surgery

1 March 2014 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
I enjoyed reading Middle Ear and Mastoid Surgery by Sanna et al. The authors are to be commended on the excellence of the illustrations within this text, both in schematic line drawings and operative images. I found both to be...

Surgical Paediatric Otolaryngology, Second Edition

1 January 2018 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Paediatrics
This is a well-written and illustrated surgical atlas of paediatric otolaryngology by authors who are senior and experienced paediatric otolaryngology head and neck surgeons working at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. This text is a comprehensive...

Sleep Disordered Breathing in Children: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide to Evaluation and Treatment

1 January 2015 | | ENTA-Paediatrics
This book offers a very comprehensive guide to sleep disorders in childhood. It is presented in six sections covering the normal upper airway, sleep during development, diagnostic assessment of sleep and breathing in children, sleep disordered breathing in children, the...

Rotational chair testing: “To rotate, or not to rotate, that is the real question”

1 November 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Vestibular Disorders
Passive whole body rotation tests are widely considered to be the ‘gold standard’ for the identification of bilateral peripheral vestibular disorders (bPVD), but also have a part to play in identifying unilateral disorders (uPVD). In this article Paul Radomskij discusses...

In conversation with Professor Valentina Parma, Head of GCCR

1 July 2021 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
Smell has long been regarded as the Cinderella of the senses, oft neglected by clinicians, the research community and lay public. The Global Consortium for Chemosensory Research looks to change all that. Our roving reporter, Abigail Walker, talks to its...

Cognition and hearing – you can’t test one with the other!

3 March 2021 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
Cognitive Psychologist, Boaz M Ben-David, provides insights into the import of considering cognitive factors when assessing speech perception ability to maximise intervention success. Failing to do so, he suggests, is “ageist”, a predisposition healthcare professionals must avoid. Cognitive performance is...

Migration and training: a British-Nigerian surgeon’s perspective

1 March 2018 | | ENTA-ENT
Less than 4% of doctors on the UK’s medical register describe their ethnicity as African or part African, yet there are myriad driving forces behind the migration of medical trainees from Africa to the UK and other developed countries. Ekpemi...

In conversation with Prof Peter Friedland – Reflections on an extraordinary career and life

27 October 2023 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Paediatrics
Our illustrious friend, Harvey Coates, hears about Professor Friedland’s amazing personal journey, ranging from horrifying exposure to violence through to his clinical care for (and friendship with) Nelson Mandela and his prevailing passion for teaching. Professor Peter Friedland. Professor Peter...

In conversation with Bill Gibson, Richard Ramsden and Shakeel Saeed

1 September 2017 | | ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Paediatrics
The surgical aspect of cochlear implantation is both a joy and a challenge – which is why we love it! In this article, Simon Freeman draws on the wisdom of his three previous mentors, sharing pearls from some of the...

Selecting and optimising hearing aids for tinnitus benefit: a rough guide

24 May 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Tinnitus
Hearing aids have a relatively long history as tinnitus treatment tools. Saltzman and Ersner reported success in suppressing tinnitus with simple hearing aids in a number of cases as early as 1947 [1]. In an early comprehensive approach to tinnitus...

Why screen for hearing loss in adults?

14 June 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
Introduction Hearing loss affects over 10 million people in the UK – one in six of the population. Of over 50-year-olds 41.7% are estimated to have some form of hearing loss. This rises to 71.1% of over 70-year-olds, over half...

Adult hearing screening: consideration for a holistic model

14 June 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Adult
Background Adult-onset hearing impairment is a highly prevalent and undertreated chronic problem that poses a significant burden of disease worldwide [1]. It is usually gradual and diagnosed and managed approximately 10 years after adults have first experienced hearing difficulties [2]....