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Experience on the front line

21 January 2021 | | ENTA - General
21st January 2021 Back to basics Yesterday I went right back to where my medical career began. I grew up in Germany, bilingual. A prerequisite to studying medicine in Germany is that applicants have to spend two months working as...

Talking it through: voice therapy

4 May 2021 | | ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy
The authors begin this article by highlighting two issues in voice therapy: 1. the high rate of relapse and 2. poor attendance at appointments. They attribute this to there not being carryover (or generalisation) work embedded into most voice therapy...

History of Hearing Device

3 November 2023 |
Alex Griffiths-Brown, BSc(Hons), MRes, Senior Audiologist, The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust, Shrewsbury, UK. E: alex.griffiths-brown@nhs.netTwitter: @griffithsbrown1 When I was asked to edit ENT&A Nov/Dec 2023 on the history of hearing devices, I knew it was going to be...

Challenges in paediatric airway management

4 November 2025 | | ENTA - Paediatrics, ENTA - Head & Neck
Paediatric airway emergencies are high-stakes, but training, simulation and updated guidelines help ENT teams manage risks and build confidence. Congratulations to the ENT Masterclass® on its forthcoming 20th birthday. Over the past two decades, Shahed Quraishi has grown it to...

Patient-reported outcome measures: what do the people say?

5 November 2021 | | ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy
Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) assess and quantify health outcomes from the patient’s perspective. Defining these questionnaires as outcomes indicates that they are psychometrically sensitive to change. This article describes three PROMS: namely the Patient Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS),...

Cochlear implant care: putting patients in charge

1 September 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Otology
Should patients take charge of their own cochlear implant care? Helen Cullington presents a compelling case that will provoke discussion in implant centres. Around 1400 people receive a cochlear implant in the UK each year. Patients require lifetime annual follow-up...

What has NAIROS taught us about septoplasty?

30 October 2024 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Rhinoplasty
Septoplasty is a commonly performed procedure worldwide for nasal obstruction associated with a deviated nasal septum. In the UK, with long waiting lists for septoplasty, there is a large and unexplained variation in the incidence of this procedure between individual...

Intratympanic treatments for subjective idiopathic tinnitus

24 May 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Tinnitus
Direct application of medication into the ear is long established, going back as far as written records. In the modern era, greater understanding of aural anatomy revealed that drugs instilled in the middle ear could potentially diffuse into the cochlea...

Be who you needed when you were younger

4 September 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Auditory Implants
Trainee audiologist, deaf England futsal player and deaf advocate Zara Musker discusses finding her own deaf identity: “It’s part of me but not all of me”. Am I an audiologist? A deaf England futsal player? An advocate for deaf individuals?...

Head and neck cancer deaths to cost $535 billion by 2030

3 March 2021 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck
More than 500,000 people across the globe will die this year from head and neck cancer, which is the sixth most common cancer in the world and comprises malignancies of the nose, mouth, throat, larynx, and neck. Assuming current trends...

Pinnaplasty for prominent ears

9 September 2020 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Paediatrics
Pinnaplasty is a challenging yet rewarding procedure for which many different techniques have been described. In this article the authors describe their favoured technique, including the important postoperative care. Prominent ears can be a source of significant psychological distress in...

In conversation with Duncan Boak, founder of Fifth Sense

1 July 2016 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Anosmia Our sense of smell is something we take for granted – but imagine if it wasn’t there… We see many patients who struggle with anosmia, but perhaps don’t always appreciate how much of an effect it has on their...