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Sounding It Out: The UKs hottest Audiology Podcast – boost your CPD ‘on the go’!

7 March 2023 | Company Profiles, Contracts & Distributors, Research & Development
If you could boost your CPD points while cooking, driving or even exercising…that would be a dream, right? Well now you can!

Post-operative debridement following FESS

1 September 2015 |
Postoperative treatment pathways for patients following functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) vary widely with the topic of debridement of the nasal cavity a subject of conjecture. This article is the result of two independent reviewers using the consort guidance for...

Early intensive aphasia therapy in stroke patients

1 September 2014 | | Very Early Rehabilitation, aphasia, stroke
The impact of aphasia following stroke is devastating. Very early aphasia rehabilitation studies have been the subject of ongoing debate. This paper describes the comparison of a very early aphasia therapy regimen with a historical ‘usual care’ control group after...

Cinch suture: Does it work?

1 March 2018 | | Le Fort I osteotomy, alar base width, cinch suture, nasal width, stability
Flaring of the nostrils is a common side-effect of a maxillary osteotomy. At times flaring is minimal or of no significance. In some instances, it can be a significant postoperative concern to the patient, even to the extent of declining...

Predicting postoperative respiratory complications following paediatric adenotonsillectomy

1 November 2017 | | Meta-analysis, Pediatric obstructive sleep apnea, Post-operative complications, Tonsillectomy
This systematic review aimed to compare the presence of clinical features versus the polysomnography results in predicting major postoperative respiratory complications in children undergoing adenotonsillectomy for OSA. The study was prepared according to the PRISMA checklist. Overall 22 studies met...

Are elective facelifts a good idea after head and neck cancer radiotherapy?

1 May 2016 |
The aim of this study was to assess the safety of elective cervicofacial rhytidectomy following radiotherapy for head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC). A greater proportion of HNSCC patients are infected with certain strains of the human papillomavirus, which...

Hearing preservation and device benefit following implantation of short or hybrid electrodes

1 March 2016 | | cochlear implant, Electric-acoustic stimulation, Hearing preservation, Residual acoustic hearing
Hybrid or short electrodes have increasingly been used in the literature in order to combine electrical with hearing-aid stimulation. However, hearing preservation of the residual low-frequencies are of utmost importance in this attempt. The present study compared hearing preservation and...

Pre-hospital care

1 July 2014 | | 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...

Why does music move us? Music as auditory signals of emotion

1 September 2016 | | Audiology - Adult
Music forms an integral part of the lives of people in all known cultures around the world. In this article Dr Sandra Garrido explains that in fact, our response to music is largely innate and is related to the evolutionary...

The future of rhinology: What will come first, a radical change in rhinological management or the decimation of the world?

1 March 2019 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus, Rhinoplasty
In this article, Simon Gane looks forward to what the future holds, on the presumption he survives. Setting aside the questions of the UK even existing, the NHS still working, or the fact we’ll be commuting to our jobs in...

The future role of technology in rhinology

7 January 2021 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus
Technology is moving our speciality forward very rapidly in all domains, but none more so than in rhinology. David Whitehead looks at current and future trends. How will a surgeon justify their position in a team where artificial intelligence (AI)...

Head and neck robotic surgery – considerations for the surgical trainee

4 November 2021 | | ENT, Head and Neck
In 2021, training in head and neck cancer surgery would be incomplete without some robotic resections under the belt. Henry Zhang explains how he did it and outlines the options available. With a wide range of applications in both benign...