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IFOS Dubai 2023

3 November 2022 |
Hussain Abdul Rahman Al Rand, Msc (Cairo), German Board (Facharzt), FRCS (Edin), President, IFOS World Congress Dubai, 2023; Assistant Under Secretary Public Health, Ministry of Health and Prevention, UAE; Vice President, IFOS; President, ARABFOS, GCC ORL Head and Neck Society,...

Transnasal endoscopic repair of CSF leaks

1 July 2017 | | Anterior skull base, cerebrospinal fluid leak or fistula, CSF leak or fistula, intrathecal fluorescein, fascia lata
This Italian study was a retrospective review of 110 consecutive patients who underwent repair of their CSF leak via the transnasal endoscopic approach from 2003 to 2013. All surgery was performed by the same primary surgeon and patients with a...

Hearing provides cues for the maintenance of balance

1 May 2017 | | Balance, audition, hearing, posturography, proprioception, stability, sway, vestibular
It is well known that balance relies on the integration of vestibular, visual and proprioceptive cues. However not much mention or attention has been given to the importance of auditory cues for balance maintenance. The authors set up experiments to...

Posturography in persistent postural-perceptual dizziness (PPPD)

1 November 2016 | | Posturography, Sensory Organization Test, anxiety, persistent postural-perceptual dizziness, vestibular function tests
Those in neuro-otology practice will be familiar with PPPD now appearing in the forthcoming beta edition of ICD-11. This condition combines the symptoms of phobic postural vertigo and chronic subjective dizziness in which anxiety plays a part. The underlying hypothesis...

Sugammadex

1 November 2019 | | ENT
Scott Russell is an anaesthetist with an almost unrivalled experience of complex head and neck surgery, and has seen all manner of new ideas come and go. However, in this article he describes a new pharmaceutical agent that is already...

Getting It Right First Time in ENT

14 January 2020 | | 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...

Mapping the financial and disease burden of hearing loss and associated interventions

4 May 2021 | | Audiology - Adult, Otology, ENT
The prevalence and burden of ear and hearing disorders is huge and, historically, has been underappreciated. Globally, unaddressed hearing loss poses a growing public health challenge, requiring urgent attention from policymakers, health professionals and civil society. The recently published World...

The potential benefits of having supervision in clinical practice

1 September 2018 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric
Marie Wardle is the Programme Director of the Interpersonal Therapy department in the West Midlands, UK and part of her role is to deliver supervision training courses for therapists in the region. Therapists, whether supporting patients with psychological or physical...

Mapping the financial and disease burden of hearing loss and associated interventions

4 May 2021 | | Audiology - Adult, Otology, ENT
The prevalence and burden of ear and hearing disorders is huge and, historically, has been underappreciated. Globally, unaddressed hearing loss poses a growing public health challenge, requiring urgent attention from policymakers, health professionals and civil society. The recently published World...

Changing the face of global health: short-term surgical trips

8 October 2020 |
With the growth of global health awareness, global surgery has emerged as a key focus area. This article examines short-term surgical trips (STSTs) as one of the ways used to address some of the gaps in global surgery. It demonstrates...

ENT and audiology in the Land of a Thousand Hills

4 March 2024 | | ENT, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Adult, Otology
Rwanda is a beautiful country known as the ‘Land of a Thousand Hills’. It is located in the Great Rift Valley in East Africa and shares borders with Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, all offering direct...

Demystifying laryngology in the era of examination and collaboration

1 May 2018 | | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
In the field of laryngology, perhaps more than in any other area of ENT, there has been a philosophical shift (as well as a technological one) in the approach of clinicians caring for patients. Albert Merati explains. Progress in laryngology...