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What’s new about the 5th Congress of the CEORL-HNS?

1 January 2019 | | ENT
The CEORL-HNS congress will feature novel ideas for sessions, including debates, ‘basic ENT’ and ‘nightmare’ sessions! The two leading figures of the meeting tell us about the evolution of the congress and future directions. There is something new about the...

Re-establishing ENT services in Liberia after three decades

4 September 2023 | | ENT
Liberia is a country located on the West African coast bordered by Guinea, Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast. Founded in 1821, it is Africa’s oldest modern republic and was established on land acquired for freed US slaves by the...

Addressing ear and hearing care through task sharing: the Malawian experience

27 February 2020 | | ENT, Otology, Audiology - Diagnostic
How can ear and hearing care be addressed in a setting with limited resources? Wakisa Mulwafu, Chris Prescott and Johan Fagan present an innovative model for training ear surgery technicians to perform endoscopic myringoplasty under local anaesthesia on a large...

Virtual and augmented reality in surgery

1 March 2018 | | ENT
Virtual reality (VR) is a three-dimensional, computer generated environment which can be accessed using a virtual reality headset, allowing individuals to immerse themselves in this virtual world. Augmented reality (AR) systems layer virtual information over a live camera feed into...

The Surgical Skills Centre in BACO 2018: pride of place

1 January 2018 | | ENT
Simulation in medical training is gaining prominence with every passing year, and BACO will have a large space showcasing this area. We hear from the organisers. In recognition of the developing importance of simulation in surgical training, BACO 2018 has...

Giacomo Puccini’s laryngeal cancer

1 September 2015 | | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Giacomo Puccini, one of the best known composers of all time, was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer and died from the disease in 1924. In this article, Rosario Marchese-Ragona and Alessandro Martini describe Puccini’s experience of the disease with quotes from...

Measuring the pitch and loudness of tinnitus

24 May 2017 | | Tinnitus, Audiology - Adult
Matching the characteristics of tinnitus Many researchers and clinicians have explored the subjective nature of tinnitus by asking people with tinnitus to adjust a sound so that it matches their tinnitus in some way. This can be useful both for...

Cochlear implantation in children with single-sided deafness: rationale and early findings

31 October 2018 | | Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Diagnostic
Cochlear Implantation (CI) in children with single-sided deafness (SSD) is a controversial treatment option. Profs Karen Gordon, Papsin and Cushing discuss the rationale and early findings on the relative success of achieving binaural hearing for SSD with CI. If you’d...

In conversation with Miss Sujata De: Chair of the ESPO 2023 Local Programme Committee

6 January 2023 | | ENT, Paediatric ENT
Su De is one of the UK’s most prominent paediatric ORL surgeons, and has a leading role in planning ESPO 2023. Hannah Emerson caught up with Su recently to explore some of her thoughts and her plans for ESPO. You’ve...

1st ENT Masterclass® World Congress

18 November 2022 -19 November 2022 | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Otology, Rhinology / Sinus, Paediatric ENT, Facial Plastic Surgery, Maxillofacial Surgery, Head and Neck
Post-COVID, ENT Masterclass returned to provide free quality education with a two-day World Congress in an opulent venue matched by an international faculty who shine brightly in their respective fields. On day one, the organising team welcomed over 250 delegates...

ENT Training: a Singapore perspective

1 January 2014 | | ENT
I recently had the opportunity to participate in a week’s observation with Associate Prof Thomas Loh, a head and neck surgeon with a special interest in nasopharyngeal carcinoma at the National University Hospital of Singapore (NUHS). What was striking from...

ENT in Ethiopia: Aksum-Barts Partnership

1 July 2017 | | ENT
In keeping with many other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopia has a chronic lack of hospitals and doctors. Nadia Ashraf and Tim Crocker-Buqué tell us about a project which aims to improve training in ENT, in a hospital that has...