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Audiology in this issue...Genomics

1 July 2021 |
Priya Carling, AuD, Director and Consultant Audiologist, Kent Hearing Ltd, UK. E: priya@Kenthearing.com As a working clinical audiologist, my focus every day is predominantly diagnostics of hearing loss, closely followed by management of ear pathology and rehabilitation of hearing loss...

Landmark clinical trial into treatment for severe hearing loss launches

3 January 2022
Researchers at the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre and the University of Nottingham are launching a new study, sponsored by the University of Nottingham, which will inform the most effective treatment for people with severe hearing loss globally (those with...

Bill Gibson: Pioneering Bionic Ear Surgeon

1 November 2017 | | ENT, Auditory Implants, Otology, Paediatric ENT
Professor Bill Gibson is one of the great pioneers of inner ear surgery and the recent publication of his biography is a reflection of his remarkable life and career. Bill Gibson: Pioneering Bionic Ear Surgeon will be enjoyed by everyone...

OTC hearing aids

1 July 2017 | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric
The potential for the deregulation of hearing aid technology, through the Over-The-Counter Act has led to a tremendous amount of opinions and views from all stakeholders in the US. You don’t have to go far on the internet, social media...

Dupilumab prospective RCT for CRSwNP, a multinational trial of 60 patients with a 16-week CT follow-up

7 January 2021 | | Rhinology / Sinus
This transcontinental work describes a randomised, double blind, placebo controlled parallel group study over a 16-week period, assessing 60 patients with CRSwNP by CT scan scores. All patients had a four-week period of intranasal corticosteroids followed by randomisation to add...

Sinus airflow after FESS using models and fluid dynamics

2 November 2020 | | Rhinology / Sinus
This is a very interesting study from Australia and New Zealand looking at flow of air into the nose and sinuses after FESS surgery. There is plenty of data regarding computational fluid dynamics for preoperative cases but not much for...

VACANCY: Band 6 Senior Audiologist, Belfast

1 November 2023 | Recruitment & Personnel
The following job opportunity is now available.
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Nasal septoplasty: is it more effective than medical management?

8 January 2024 | | Rhinology / Sinus
Question1. How do we know that undertaking an operation will benefit a patient? Question 2. How do policy makers / health systems know an operation is effective and ‘good value for money’? As trained professionals, we spend our careers seeking...

Multi-channel cochlear implants: past, present and future

1 September 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Auditory Implants, ENT, Otology
Forty years since the first multi-channel devices were implanted, who better than Ingeborg Hochmair, who has been a key figure throughout their evolution, to offer her thoughts on the past, present and future of multi-channel cochlear implants? Read on for...

The role of objective measures and imaging to optimise cochlear implant outcomes

1 September 2017 | | Auditory Implants, ENT, Otology
Should we be using new or novel objective measures and imaging to assist with our cochlear implant patients? Debi Vickers and Shak Saeed describe current clinical techniques and present advances that have the potential to optimise outcomes. Introduction It is...

Evidence based practice in paediatric audiology

1 January 2015 | | Audiology - Paediatric
Audiology, like most of the health sciences professions, has been working on integrating evidence-based practice principles since the mid-1990s [1]. Professional organisations and regulatory colleges have produced evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, disseminated them to audiologists and collaborated with practitioners to...

Utilisation of cortical auditory evoked potentials in the paediatric population

1 January 2015 | | Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric
Introduction Early identification of hearing loss in infants followed by prompt intervention is well established as the key to maximising the development of speech, language and psychosocial skills. Many countries have already adopted early hearing detection and intervention (EDHI) programs,...