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Person-centric practice within a hearing wellbeing programme
7 January 2025
| Nathan Barlow
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ENTA-Audiology - Adult
This Australian team describe their development process of a hearing wellbeing programme beginning in August 2020, with a wide variety of stakeholders being involved. Primarily, they report, they aimed to overcome the challenge of providing engaging social and emotional support...
What’s new in electrophysiology?
Steve Bell is a lecturer at the University of Southampton and a member of the British Society of Audiology’s (BSA) Special Interest Group in Electrophysiology. Given the current surge in interest in electrophysiology, both in rehabilitation and diagnostic arenas, Steve...Targeted focal parathyroidectomy
Leanne Hamilton and Louise Clark describe their technique for helping to localise parathyoid adenomas. Surgically this can be difficult, so careful preoperative evaluation using imaging as described can help minimise difficulties intraoperatively when identifying the parathyroid adenoma. Preoperative imaging has...Young CEORL-HNS: empowering the future of otorhinolaryngology
8 January 2024
| Giuditta Mannelli, David T Liu, Pavol Surda, Daniele Borsetto, Carlos Chiesa-Estomba, Niels Cramer West, Marlene M Speth
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ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Paediatrics, ENTA-Skull Base Surgery, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
Young CEORL-HNS is a subgroup within CEORL-HNS which encompasses new specialists in ENT within training and up to the first decade or so as an accredited specialist. Giuditta Mannelli is the current president and is a head and neck surgeon...
Triple semicircular canal occlusion and Meniere’s disease: a rising alternative treatment?
7 January 2021
| Geo Thachil, Georgios Kontorinis
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ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Vestibular Disorders
Patients with dizziness form a large part of the workload for ENT surgeons. In the overwhelming majority of cases, management will be medical and successful. However, occasionally some patients present a challenge when they have not responded to conventional treatments....
Better or barrier: what do healthcare professionals think about teletherapy?
6 September 2021
| Anna Volkmer
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ENTA-Speech and Language Therapy
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children, language assessment, telehealth
Most healthcare professionals will have had to dabble in using some kind of telehealth platform over the last 18 months or so. And most of us will have had some reservations, or have colleagues who just weren’t sure about Zoom,...
Coblation tongue channelling
After uvulopalatoplasty, the tendency is to focus on the tongue base as the next anatomical area to address in the management of snoring and sleep-disordered breathing. In this article, Glen Burgess describes the technique of tongue channelling, to reduce the...Hearing difficulties and memory problems
3 July 2023
| Charlotte Rogers
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ENTA-Audiology - Adult
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Hearing loss, health, memory, path analysis, Physical activity, psychosocial wellbeing
Since the Lancet Commission report in 2020, we have all been aware that untreated hearing loss is potentially one of the biggest modifiable risk factors for dementia in midlife. Hearing loss is also associated with other risk factors for dementia,...
Transmastoid facial nerve decompression for persistent traumatic facial nerve paralysis
Facial nerve paralysis (FNP) can occur following trauma, with a small number of these patients requiring facial nerve decompression (FND) to aid recovery. The authors shared their experience in decompressing the facial nerve for persistent severe FNP via a transmastoid...Reducing the risk of Frey’s syndrome after parotidectomy – which methods are best?
1 July 2021
| Diana Bhasker
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ENTA-Head & Neck
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Frey syndrome, gustatory sweating, parotid gland surgery, postoperative complications
Gustatory sweating or Frey’s syndrome is a well-recognised complication of parotid surgery. The reported incidence is highly variable, from 4% to 96%, with around 30% of patients reporting symptoms. A number of intraoperative techniques can be used to reduce the...
Enhanced recovery following surgery for head and neck cancer – the current evidence
9 September 2020
| Matthew Coates
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ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA-Speech and Language Therapy
Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) programmes are now well established in many surgical specialities as a means of reducing postoperative complications and length of stay in hospital. Whilst many head and neck teams have interventions used to aid postoperative recovery,...
Long-term voice outcomes following transoral laser surgery versus radiotherapy for early laryngeal cancers
1 September 2019
| Christopher Burgess
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ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
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Laryngeal cancer treatment, Laser microsurgery, Quality of life, Radiation therapy, Voice outcome
The oncological outcomes of transoral laser microsurgery (TOLM) for early laryngeal cancers are well-known to be very similar to radiation therapy (RT). The functional outcomes associated with each treatment modality are therefore of significant interest. This study is reported to...